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Police foil anti-CAA protests in Agra
Internet service suspended in
Karnataka's Manguluru
Agra : Elaborate security arrangements by the district administration
have foiled attempts at major protests and demonstrations
against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) here, so far.
Some Samajwadi Party (SP) workers, led by Wazid Nisar and
Ram Sahai Yadav, on Thursday bared themselves despite shivering
cold at the party office in Dholpur House. But they were prevented
by the police from moving ahead.
A few other groups also tried to take out protest marches, but the
police forced them back.
Some SP leaders complained that they had not been allowed out
of their houses by the police. Roli Tiwari Mishra, former member of
the state women's commission, was held back in her house and not
allowed to move out. In Mathura and Firozabad, small groups of SP
workers protesting against state government policies were prevented
from taking to streets.
New Delhi : At least three people
were killed in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow
and Karnataka's Mangaluru as violence
broke out during protests against the
Citizenship Amendment Act in various
places on Thursday. Aiming to bring
national and international attention to
their fight against the controversial law,
protesters from a wide social and political
spectrum joined forces as marches
and meets were held across the country.
Almost all the country's major cities -
Delhi, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Chennai,
Lucknow, Patna, Thiruvananthapuram,
and Hyderabad - saw protesters on the
streets despite substantial police presence
and imposition of prohibitory
orders at several places.
In Delhi, protesters gathered in large
numbers at various places like the Red
Fort, Mandi House and Jantar Mantar.
Police forces deployed in large numbers
kept the protests under control.
A number of metro rail stations were
shut as a precautionary measure. A huge
traffic jam was witnessed on NH8, connecting
Gurugram to the capital and
flight operations from the IGI airport
were affected, as apart from passengers,
the flight and cabin crew could not
reach for duty. Some of the worst
protest-related violence took place In
Uttar Pradesh, where media persons
were attacked and OB vans were razed
in Lucknow. Similar acts of violence
and arson were reported from places
such as Sambhal in the state, which has
a BJP government at the helm.
In Lucknow, a man died allegedly
due to a firearm injury that he sustained
during the protests. The deceased,
according to sources, has been identified
as Mohd Wakeel, a resident of
Sajjad Bagh in Hussainabad area. It is
not yet clear if he was killed in police
firing.
"That is for the forensic experts to
decide what kind of bullet took his life.
He came here with a bullet injury in the
stomach and we tried to save him but he
succumbed to the injury," said a doctor
in the Trauma Centre of the King
George's Medical University.
The police maintained a studied
silence on the death. Chief Minister
Yogi Adityanath blamed the opposition
for the violence.
Authorities have suspended internet
services in Lucknow for 45 hours from
3 p.m. on Thursday and in Ghaziabad
for 24 hours. In yet another BJP-ruled
state, Karnataka, two deaths were purportedly
reported from Mangaluru
while protests were by and large peaceful
and orderly elsewhere in the state.
Bengaluru : The Karnataka
government ordered all mobile
operators to suspend internet data
services for two days in
Manguluru and Dakshina Kannada
district in the state's coastal region,
in the aftermath of anti-CAA
protests, a senior official said on
Thursday. "I promulgate this notification
to prohibit the internet
data service of all mobile operators
for the next 48 hours beginning
from Thursday 10 p.m. in
Manguluru and Dakshina Kannada
district, " said state's Additional
Chief Secretary, Home, Rajneesh
Goel. The suspension comes in the
wake of Manguluru Police
Commissioner P. S. Harsha's
report to the state government on
violent incidents during the day in
the port city, and fearing more
such incidents, affecting law and
order situation and threatening
Prohibitory orders were in place in
Bengaluru and other parts of the state
from Thursday morning and prominent
among those detained by the police in
Bengaluru included eminent historian
Ramachandra Guha.
Police fired teargas shells and carried
out a baton charge to disperse 100 anti-
CAA protesters who allegedly turning
violent, setting a few motor bikes on fire
and pelting stones on security forces in
Mangaluru Two persons have reportedly
died from bullet injuries sustained in
police firing on anti-CAA protesters, a
police source said on Thursday.
"Jaleel Kandak, 49, and Naushan
Kudroli, 23, who received bullet
injuries when the police fired on protesters
near the Deputy Commissioner's
public safety.
At least two protesters were
killed in alleged police firing,
sources said.
"Director General of Police
Neelmani Raju has requested that
internet service be suspended in
Manguluru and Dakshina Kannada
for the next 48 hours in view of the
violent incidents," Goyal said in
his order. The Manguluru Police
Commissioner also informed the
state government about the incidents
of vandalism and arson
which are likely to spread and
cause serious law and order situation.
"Social media platforms are
likely to be used for spreading
rumours and transmitting information
through pictures, videos and
text that have the potential to
inflame passions and exacerbate
the law and order situation," said
Harsha.
3 dead as protests against CAA continue across India
office, succumbed to their injuries at a
private hospital," the source told IANS.
Though Mangaluru Police
Commissioner P.S. Harsha was yet to
officially confirm the deaths, a Muslim
cleric told reporters that Kandak and
Kudroli were no more. Senior Congress
leader Dinesh Gundu Rao also confirmed
the deaths in a tweet.
Addressing the media, Harsha said:
"About 20 people were injured, including
15 policemen, when protesters
threw stones on the police and attempted
to set police vehicles on fire.
In West Bengal, where Mamta
Banerjee heads the Trinamool government,
the protests were a big show of
strength for the ruling party which has
been fiercely opposing the CAA.
Banerjee fuelled the controversy by
demanding a UN-monitored referendum
on the law. The statements have come
for sharp criticism from the BJP, while
Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar appealed
to her to withdraw the comment.
Maharashtra also witnessed protests
in Mumbai and several other places in
the state.
In Mumbai, the biggest procession
was held at the historic August Kranti
Maidan which saw a large number of
celebs and political leaders like Raj
Babbar, Naseem Khan, Milind Deora,
Eknath Gaikwad, film personalities -
Rahul Bose, Swara Bhasker, Saeed
Mirza, Suhasini Mulay, Farhan Akhtar,
and Sushant Singh, academicians, social
workers, representatives of NGOs, students,
and many more sitting in protest
against the CAA-NRC. Nagpur, which
is the headquarters of the RSS, also witnessed
a big protest march by citizens'
groups. Other places that saw anti-CAA
protests include Rajasthan, Chennai and
Thiruvananthapuram.
In Rajasthan, protests were held in
several districts including the capital
city Jaipur where thousands belonging
to the Left parties, lawyers fraternity,
CIPU, People's Union for Civil
Liberties (PUCL), civil society, teachers,
professors and many other organisations
came together to take out a massive
protest march against the
Citizenship Amendment Act.
However, the protests drew a mixed
response in Bihar and were largely
muted in Madhya Pradesh. Some
protests were also reported from
Uttarakhand and Jharkhand - a day
before the last of the five-phased assembly
polls on Saturday.
Protests in Hyderabad were foiled by
the Telangana Police who whisked away
the protesters.