The Supreme Court gives Punjab 24 hours to hospitalize the hunger striker. 

• The Supreme Court has given the Punjab government 24 hours to act on medical advice to hospitalise farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal.

• Dallewal has been on a hunger strike since November 26 to press the Centre to accept farmers’ demands, including a legal guarantee of minimum support price for crops.

• The Punjab government has faced resistance in convincing Dallewal to go to a hospital, and warned that forcibly shifting him to a hospital may trigger “physical jostling” with farmers at the protest site.

• The Punjab Chief Secretary and Director-General of Police are facing contempt action in the Supreme Court for not hospitalising Dallewal despite repeated orders.