Red Fort breached: How rioters damaged cameras, vandalised ticket counter, destroyed metal detectors - In pics

A day after India proudly celebrated its 72nd Republic Day with full grandeur, followed by violence due to clashes between the protesting farmers and Delhi police personnel, shards of glass, broken turnstiles, smashed security cameras, and ransacked administrative offices remain as reminiscence of what happened on Republic Day. 

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The iconic Red Fort remains red faced with a story of shame to be told to the world. The scale of the damage caused in Tuesday's mobocracy and vandalism after hundreds of protesters stormed the Red Fort is yet to be fully assessed. But most of the damage was seen, as of yet, outside the Red Fort at ticket counters, security posts and baggage scanners. The protesters also vandalised a CISF gypsy.

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Visuals from Tuesday’s violence showed police personnel, who were outnumbered, scrambling for cover as the protesters had a free run of the monument. There was vandalism near the ticket counters as protesters ran amok, smashing the panes. Two policemen were rushed out, bleeding from the head.

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The ugly scenes that were witnessed at the Red Fort since Tuesday afternoon, took hours to return to normalcy when protesters were finally made to vacate the premises and religious flags were removed from atop the fort.

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The two-month-old protest by farmer unions, against the Centre's new farm laws, descended into chaos on Republic Day when hundreds of protesters, breaking away from a planned tractor rally on the city's outskirts, felled barricades at the borders, clashed with police to enter the Capital.

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Protesting farmers entered the iconic Red Fort and the ITO in the heart of national capital, with hundreds of them deviating from agreed routes, prompting security personnel to resort to lathicharge and tear gas.

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More than 20 tractors entered the Red Fort on Tuesday afternoon, hours after the farmers' parade began.

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The visuals that emerged from ITO, where the police headquarters is situated was even more disturbing. Policemen in riot gear appeared to be helpless as they were outnumbered by the protesting farmers, were seen running or hiding behind cars as farmers armed with sticks chased them ramming their tractors into the buses parked there.

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Around 200 protesters have been detained by Delhi Police on charges of rioting, damaging public property and attacking police personnel, a day after violence during the tractor rally in the capital. Police have so far registered 22 FIRs in the matter.

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Police said more than 300 police personnel were injured, most of them during clashes at ITO and Red Fort.

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