Citizenship Amendment Act protests LIVE Updates: Student protesters detained from outside UP Bhavan in Delhi

15:56 (IST)

Lok Kalyan Marg metro station shut off amid protests near PM's residence

CNN-News18 reported that Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has shut off all the entry and exit gates of the Lok Kalyan Marg metro station after protesters tried to march towards the prime minister's residence.

15:46 (IST)

Protesters marching towards PM's residence stopped by police

Hundreds of people with their hands tied marching towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi's residence to demand the release of Bhim Army chief Chandra Shekhar Aazad and to protest the amended Citizenship Act were stopped in the way by police on Friday.

Amid heavy security arrangement and drone surveillance, the protesters including Bhim Army members started from Dargah Shah-e-Mardan in Jor Bagh in the national capital and were stopped by police at a barricade en route the PM's residence at Lok Kalyan Marg.

They participated in the march with their hands tied, saying they did it so that they could not be blamed for violence and arson during the protest. They raised slogans of 'Tanashahi nahi chalegi' and carried posters of Babasheb Ambedkar and Aazad.

15:44 (IST)

Protesters detained outside UP Bhawan

Police on Friday detained a group of protesters who tried to stage a demonstration outside the Uttar Pradesh Bhawan against alleged police atrocities in the state following the agitation over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.  The Jamia Coordination Committee, which comprises students from various political groups active on the campus, had called for a "gherao" of the UP Bhawan. There was heavy security deployment outside the venue. As soon as some protesters arrived, they were detained and taken to the Mandir Marg police station.

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Muslims take out protest march against CAA, burn Ajmer dargah deewan's effigy

Large number of Muslims, including khadims of the Ajmer dargah, took out a protest march against the amended Citizenship Act here on Friday, demanding a rollback of the controversial law.

 

They also burnt an effigy of Deewan Zainul Abedin Ali Khan, the spiritual head of the dargah, accusing him of misleading Muslims on the issue of the amended Citizenship Act.

 

 

"The Centre should repeal the Act, which is an attack on the Preamble of the Constitution. The government should also say that the NRC (National Register of Citizens) will not be implemented (countrywide)," Sarwar Chisty, a khadim of the dargah, said.

 

 

Slogans such as "long live communal harmony" were raised by the protesters. The march started from the dargah and concluded at the collectorate, after passing through the crowded dargah bazaar.

Protests and marches against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the proposed National Register of Citizens continues unbridled since 11 December when the law was passed, despite massive crackdown and restrictive tactics by the authorities. The government resorted to implementing Section 144 — law that bans assembly of more than 3 people — in areas where protests are planned, and shut off internet on a large scale.

However, citizens organised themselves in a way to continue to disseminate information about planned protests to keep the movement going. One such effort on Twitter surfaced in the form of an anonymous handle @ResistCAA which is documenting all planned protests across the country in one place.

The handle informed people that the Mumbai's planned protest march from Byculla to CSMT has been cancelled because the police did not give permission. However, the protesters led by Inquilab Morcha of Mumbai, have reorganised another resistance rally at Azad Maidan from 3 pm onwards on Friday.

Meanwhile, women of Delhi's Shaheen Bagh area are holding a round-the-clock protest. Another Muslim group is organising a protest at a mazaar in Jor Bagh area at 1.30 pm.

There is another protest planned in the National Capital against the alleged brutality of Uttar Pradesh Police in quelling state-wide protests which turned violent; 18 of the 25 deaths in the nation are reported from Uttar Pradesh. The protesters have announced that they will gather around UP Bhawan in the National Capital at 3 pm and gherao the building. The protesters are demanding that state's chief minister Yogi Adityanath must resign.

Similar protests are planned in Hyderabad, at 7 pm, Pune at 12.30 pm, Jamshedpur at 2 pm and Kolkata at 2 pm. Here is the thread with all the details.

 

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