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By the time they came on the Jafrabad main road, there were almost 3,000 people and the police were escorting them,” said a senior police official. “They were moving towards Seelampur T-point where barricades were placed. R Several announcements were made requesting them to dis- perse. When they started dis- ) * persing, suddenly stones were hurled. We made several requests to them not to pelt +& stones, but they did not relent, forcing us to use tear gas to dis- ,# perse them,” he said. Police said they have taken #R the locals into confidence through respectable people in # (/0 '/1*# the area and also through mosques and madrasa there. n a day the Opposition, led during the course of the day. Gates of seven metro stations Oby Congress president Prime Minister Narendra were closed in the wake of the Sonia Gandhi, knocked on the Modi also challenged the protest, and five of them were President’s doors seeking his Congress and its allies to re- # # ! ' $( % ( reopened after some time. intervention in the issue of introduce Article 370 in the Traffic was also diverted from violence in Central universities erstwhile State of Jammu & #$ %& torching several bikes, pelted ing 12 policemen and six civil- the Additional Public Relation police. The protesters did not the area. and urging him to advise the Kashmir and scrap the law stones at the Delhi Police and ians, were injured in violence, Officer (APRO), Delhi Police, even spare the ‘school buses’, Delhi Chief Minister Modi Government to with- against instant triple talaq. ' damaged public buses. police said. Police said the pro- two First Information Reports carrying children in Seelampur Arvind Kejriwal appealed to draw the “unconstitutional and The Opposition members The Delhi Police used force testers were marching from (FIRs) has been registered at area, to vent out their anger as Delhiites to maintain peace, divisive” citizenship amend- sought a judicial inquiry into and fired tear gas shells to dis- Seelampur towards adjoining Jafrabad and Seelampur police they pelted stones and bricks saying violence cannot be tol- ment legislation, the ruling dis- the police action and Sonia said perse the protesters. Plumes of Jafrabad. Clashes erupted station regarding the violence. on the buses. Police on spot erated in a civilised society. pensation brazened it out with the BJP Government was shut- smoke billowed from at least two between police and protesters “Police have detained five somehow managed to evacuate The Aam Aadmi Party and Union Home Minister Amit ting down people’s voices and # (/0 '/1*# localities in the area as the at Seelampur Chowk when the people. One police personnel the buses filled with school its Seelampur MLA Haji Ishraq Shah asserting that there is no bringing legislations which are standoff continued for around security personnel tried to stop condition is said to be serious. children. Several video of the urged the people to register question of going back on the not acceptable to them. he protest over Citizen one-and-a-half hours on them from moving ahead. The He has been referred to Guru violence at Seelampur area their protest peacefully after the CAA’s implementation as “the Asserting there was no TAmendment Act (CAA) Tuesday afternoon. Police said fresh clashes erupted two days Tej Bahadur (GTB) hospital for were doing rounds on social area witnessed violence. Government is firm like rock”. question of going back on on Tuesday moved out of the the situation was brought under after violence broke out during the treatment,” said Mittal. media. According to police, “I am appealing all the “Non-Muslim refugees will CAA’s implementation, Shah universities in the national control and adequate police a protest in the New Friends’ Meanwhile, protesters three bikes of were burnt by the people to register protest and get citizenship, come what accused the Opposition of Capital to North East Delhi’s force has been deployed to main- Colony area in South Delhi alleged that they were baton demonstrators, two police convey their message peace- may,” the Home Minister engaging in a “false” campaign Seelampur area on Tuesday tain law and order in the area. near Jamia Millia Islamia. charged by police, however, booth in the area were van- fully,” Ishraq said in a video stressed. He made the asser- over the legislation. with hundreds of protesters Twenty-one people, includ- According to Anil Mittal, their claims were denied by the dalised and CCTV cameras message. tions from several platforms Continued on Page 4 # !# % #! O # 203*3#4(/0 '/1*# either from the CBI or the NIA New Delhi: Protests against the for six months to help in the &'( Citizenship Amendment Act ssam Finance Minister investigations, Sarma said. (CAA) transcended Indian cam- AHimanta Biswa Sarma on “We have evidence of # (/0 '/1*# !" puses to reach top educational Tuesday alleged that during the Assam Youth Congress presi- institutions abroad like Oxford, December 11 protests the State dent Kamrul Islam Choudhury he Supreme Court on Harvard, Michigan, Columbia, Youth Congress chief set ablaze being involved in the attack at TTuesday refused to set up a Yale, Chicago, Boston, Stanford, the dais built for Japanese the State Secretariat in Dispur committee of a retired apex # Cincinnati and Massachusetts Prime Minister’s visit to on GS Road,” Sarma said, court judge to enquire into the $ Institute of Technology (MIT). Guwahati. showing a photograph of the allegations of police atrocities $ Students and scholars of Also, the Minister December 11 incident. against students and incidents % these institutions staged demon- announced an SIT probe into Choudhury had set ablaze of violence during protests $ strations against the police it even as protesters came out the dais built for Japanese against the Citizenship treatment to those injured in $ " crackdown on students of Jamia in large numbers across Assam Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Amendment Act (CAA) at the protests. Millia Islamia (JMI) and Aligarh on Tuesday demanding repeal visit to Guwahati. Abe’s visit Aligarh and Jamia universities “Having regard to the ! Muslim University (AMU). of the amended Citizenship Act % # 1 # # ' P2! was later cancelled due to the here, and asked the petitioners nature of disputes and the vast " # $ Similar protests have been and condemning Prime ! # ' # protests, the State Finance and to approach respective High area through which these inci- & $ planned in Berlin and Zurich. Minister Narendra Modi for * + Health Minister alleged. Courts with their grievances. dents are said to have occurred, # $ Back home, the of Human “ridiculing” the agitators with “The attack on the State The apex court said the we find that it would not be fea- Resource Development (HRD) his comment that protesters Assam Government to consid- railway services resumed in Secretariat was a big conspira- High Courts, after looking into sible to appoint a single com- Ministry said, the situation in 42 could be identified by the er restoration of internet ser- Guwahati. The SIT will be cy, which we want the CBI to all the aspects and hearing mittee to go into the matters in $ central universities in the coun- clothes they were wearing. vices, both mobile internet and headed by Deputy Inspector investigate and we will meet both sides, may appoint fact various States,” said a Bench $ ' try, except JMI and AMU, is There was no violence, never- broadband, from 3 pm on General (CID) Mridulananda Union Home Minister Amit finding committees to enquire comprising Chief Justice SA peaceful and examinations are theless. Tuesday. Also, in a major relief Sarmah and the State Shah soon regarding this,” into the allegations and they Bobde and Justices BR Gavai " being held as scheduled. The Gauhati High Court, to hundreds of stranded pas- Government will also urge the he said. would also pass orders with and Surya Kant. Continued on Page 4 in the meantime, directed the sengers, flight operations and Centre to depute an officer Continued on Page 4 regard to arrest and medical Continued on Page 4 # ' ( ' # #)* ( ) $ * $+ !"R % , ' '# )51)33 such extraordinary capacity. I Attacking the Centre for such badges from tomorrow. L$ am wearing a sari. Now can bringing the “blackest law of Wondering how the elderly $$ $ M amata Banerjee on anyone tell me about my back- all” in order to divide the people will manage birth cer- " MTuesday came down ground? At least I cannot do.” country along communal lines tificates as in those days many heavily on Prime Minister “In a democratic country “for political gains”, Banerjee people were born at home she Narendra Modi for his remarks like India food and dress are reiterated her stance of not said, on anti-Citizenship one’s personal choice not to be allowing CAA or National “Where will we find out Amendment Act (CAA) agita- interfered with,” she said blam- Register for Citizenship (NRC) certificates? From where will tors’ dress saying it is for the ing the BJP-led Government for in Bengal.

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