Bathinda, Feb. 8 -- The Bathinda district police on Friday registered five cases against more than 2,000 unidentified protesters belonging to the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ekta Ugrahan) for blocking a national highway and allegedly taking a deputy superintendent of police (DSP) hostage.

District police authorities did not disclose the exact sections of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) and other laws invoked in the cases.

Superintendent of police (City) Narinder Singh filed two first information reports (FIRs), each registered at the cantonment and Sadar Rampura police stations, while another case was registered at Sadar Bathinda police station.

The SP said video footage and photographic evidence were being analysed to identif...