India, March 4 -- Amid the Samyukt Kisan Morcha's (SKM) call for a 'pucca morcha (week-long protest)' in the state capital of Chandigarh from March 5, Punjab Police raided houses of farm union leaders in the Doaba region, including Jalandhar and Hoshiarpur districts, and put them under house arrest.

Police personnel barged into the houses of farm union leaders and conducted a thorough search before detaining a few of them, besides putting several leaders and workers under house arrest. The leaders and their workers posted CCTV footages of the police action on social media.

The police whisked away senior SKM leader and head of the Doaba Kisan Sangharsh Committee Jangvir Singh Chauhan from his house at Tanda in Hoshiarpur around 4am.

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