The lawyer claims that police refused to let him meet Lawrence Bishnoi.
According to recruitment data, the combined intake of 46,000 recruits this year — the quantity specified for recruitment in the first year of the Agnipath programme — will be the lowest since 2015.
Protests have erupted across Bihar and Uttar Pradesh in response to the new military recruiting policy. The demonstrations had also expanded to the BJP-ruled states of Haryana and Madhya Pradesh.