39 farm fire cases in Tarn Taran district

Thirty-nine farm fire cases were reported from Tarn Taran district on Thursday. Farmers, who set their crop residue on fire, were booked under Section 223 of the BNS. The police said 26 cases were registered against unidentified persons and in the remaining 13 cases, FIRs were registered against names of the violators.

At Alipur village falling under the Harike police station, two brothers identified as Jaljit Singh and Husanpreet Singh burnt paddy stubble in their four-acre field. Fire from their field spread to a nearby field of Baljit Singh, a resident of Thathian Khurd, in which paddy stubble was standing.

Earlier in Gorkha village, sugarcane crop on four acres was gutted when a farmer burnt paddy stubble in his nearby fields. Dr Harpal Singh Pannu, District Agriculture Officer, said farmers had been made aware about not burning crop residue. The district magistrate had imposed ban on burning of paddy stubble, he said.