Farmers' tractor parade: A timeline of how things turned violent in Delhi on R-Day

Here's a timeline of events that unfolded during the farmers' tractor parade in Delhi on the occasion of India's 72nd Republic day on Tuesday.

New Delhi:Here's a timeline of the farmers proposed 'Kisan Gantantra parade' that turned violent unexpectedly on the occasion of India's 72nd Republic day.

7 a.m.: Delhi-Haryana Tikri border: Farmers enter the national capital after breaking barricades.

8.30 a.m.:Delhi-Haryana Singhu border: Thousands of farmers enter Delhi after breaking barricades at Singhu border.

A Timeline: How Kisan Gantantra parade turned violent in Delhi

9.30 a.m.:Delhi-Uttar Pradesh Ghazipur border: Hundreds of farmers driving tractors, motorcycles and cars enter Delhi.

10 a.m.: Farmers clash with Delhi Police personnel near Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar. Police fires tear gas shells on the agitating farmers at Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar.

Kisan Gantantra parade

10.30 a.m.: Farmers clash with Delhi Police personnel near Akshardham intersection. Farmers damage the vehicles parked on the road and also damaged DTC buses near Akshardham intersection.

11 a.m.: Police fires tear gas shells and resort to mild lathi-charge. While some farmers armed with swords clash with police. Farmers move towards Sarai Kale Khan after deviating from the route assigned to them before the conclusion of the Republic Day parade at Rajpath.

Delhi police personnel injured in the violent clash

The Farmer Ganatantra Rally was scheduled for 12 to 5 p.m.

12 p.m.: Farmers clash with Police near Mukarba Chowk. Farmers reach near ITO intersection in central Delhi and damage vehicles and DTC buses. Farmers also attack police personnel. Police fires several rounds of tear gas shells and resort to lathi-charge on multiple occasions.

Police personnel using pellet guns to restrict the movement of farmers

12.30 p.m: Farmers chase police with their tractors, again damage several DTC buses near ITO as they are prevented from moving towards the Red Fort.

Hundreds of farmers riding tractors, bikes and cars reach Red Fort portico and enter its premises and hoist the farmer union flags and saffron pennant with a Sikh religious symbol on the first rampart of the iconic 17th-century monument.

Farmers hoist the farmer union flags and affron pennant with a Sikh religious symbol on the first rampart of the iconic 17th-century monument.

1 p.m.:A farmer named Navneet Singh dies after a tractor in which he was travelling turns turtle. However, the farmers claimed that he was shot dead. Farmers sit with the dead body at ITO over the death of the farmer. Police enter Red Fort premises and try to remove the farmer union flags. This is exactly from where Prime Minister hoists the national flag every year on Independence Day.

An unknown miscreant thrashing the police personnel during the tractor rally

2.30 p.m.:Farmers keep on clashing with police personnel near ITO intersection as well as Red Fort -- there's stone-pelting.

4.30 p.m:Union Home Minister Amit Shah called an emergency meeting at his residence over the violence.

5 p.m: Additional DCP (East) Manjeet and a probationer IPS officer got injured while they were trying to stop farmers from breaking the barricades.

5:30 p.m.:Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh appealed to the farmers to vacate Delhi and return to the borders.

6 p.m: Protesting farmers' unions alleged that some "anti-social" elements infiltrated their "peaceful" protest Samyukta Kisan Morcha, a conglomerate of farmers' unions, said it condemns and regrets the violence that took place in the national capital during the farmers' protest today.

A farmer protesting at the national capital

6.30 p.m:Security personnel used lathi-charge to push back the farmers who had broken down police barricades at Nangloi Chowk.

7.30 p.m:The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) has called off Kisan Republic Day Parade with immediate effect and appealed to all participants to immediately return to their respective protest sites.

Thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh have been camping at the several borders of the national capital since November 26 last year demanding the repealing of the three farm laws. Eleven rounds of talks of farmers with the government in the last two months have remained inconclusive.

(With inputs from agency)