India, Jan. 23 -- Protesting farmers camping at the Delhi-Haryana border claimed to have nabbed a man in police uniform on Friday, whom they alleged was sent by someone to create disturbance during their proposed tractor rally in Delhi on January 26.

While addressing a press conference at the Singhu border late on Friday night, the farmer leaders presented a masked man who claimed that his accomplices were allegedly asked to pose as policemen and baton-charge the crowd during the proposed tractor rally on January 26.

The youth is being questioned by Haryana police in Sonepat, officials said on Saturday.

The farmer leaders said the man had confessed that there was a plan to eliminate four farmer union leaders.

The masked man has been i...