UP Police Seize Food Items, Blankets From Protesting Women In Lucknow; Book 60 Women For Protesting In Aligarh
The anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests have swept the nation with people of all gender and age coming together to voice their concerns against the contentious legislation. However, a pattern has emerged across states and cities where Police have been hostile towards people protesting peacefully. Severe violence was reported from Uttar Pradesh during the anti-CAA agitation, Delhi saw similar incidents more than once.
The anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests have swept the nation with people of all gender and age coming together to voice their concerns against the contentious legislation. However, a pattern has emerged across states and cities where Police have been hostile towards people protesting peacefully. Severe violence was reported from Uttar Pradesh during the anti-CAA agitation, Delhi saw similar incidents more than once.
In Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow Police confiscated food items and blankets from women protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in the Ghanta Ghar area on January 18 evening.
The Lucknow protests were inspired by the peaceful protests in Shaheen Bagh steered by women which entered second month. More than 500 women along with children sat near the Clock Tower in Lucknow's old quarters on Saturday evening protesting the amended citizenship law and the planned National Register of Citizens (NRC).
Videos of police taking away blankets and food items from the protesters surfaced on social media in which cops can be seen rushing towards police vans with the confiscated items, says a report by India Today.
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Criticising the police action, women, who were present at Ghanta Ghar on Saturday evening, could be heard shouting "Uttar Pradesh ki chor police" (The thief police of Uttar Pradesh).
Kon chor hai? Haan wahi!
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What an embarrassment! #LucknowProtest #HusainabadClockTower #CAAProtest#GhantaGhar pic.twitter.com/2PgpRuunb8
Reports suggest that the protests in Lucknow were peaceful untill the police reached the protest site and started confiscating food items and blankets from the protesters which led to chaos.
Women Booked In Aligarh
A first information report (FIR) was filed on January 18 against 60-70 women in Aligarh for allegedly staging the protest against CAA and National Population Register (NPR).
Police said that the protest organised by the agitated women was in violation of Section 144.
"Some women tried to stage a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act and National Population Register, which is a violation of Section 144. So, an FIR has been registered against 60-70 unknown women," said Anil Samania, Circle Officer (CO) of Aligarh Civil Lines.
Protests broke out in different parts of the country, including Assam against CAA which grants citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis, Buddhists, and Christians facing religious persecution from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh and who came to India on or before December 31, 2014.
