Chandigarh, March 25 -- The Punjab government on Monday said that farmers were cleared from the Khanauri and Shambhu borders on March 19 after intelligence inputs of apprehensions of a violent attempt to breach barricading and resuming march to Delhi.

Patiala senior superintendent of police (SSP) Nanak Singh, in response to a petition filed seeking the release of farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, said, " .said inputs were confirmed and corroborated by the fact that the meeting of various leaders of protesting organisations, held in Chandigarh on March 19, 2025, with the delegation of Union government ..was touted by the said leaders as failure." The SSP's affidavit added that upon receiving these "alarming and critical inputs" the adm...