Indian state probing if protesting farmers sabotaged telecom infrastructure


Farmers beat utensils during a protest against the central government's recent agricultural reforms on the outskirts of Amritsar on Dec 27, 2020. - AFP

MUMBAI (Reuters): Authorities in India's northern state of Punjab are investigating whether protesting farmers were disrupting power supply to hundreds of telecom towers, a state official said on Monday (Dec 28), amid ongoing protests against contentious new farm laws.

"We have told the police to track all those involved in sabotaging the infrastructure," a senior official in the Punjab state government told Reuters on condition of anonymity.

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