Two Die in Police Fi As Anticaa Protests Rock the Country
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Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna NEARBY Two die in police firing in Mangaluru as antiCAA protests rock the country ‘You have made it a Marchers take to the streets, defy prohibitory orders in many places and brave police crackdowns war-like situation’ Special Correspondent of an alleged firearm injury GHAZIABAD New Delhi “You [State] have made it a as protests turned violent, warlike situation,” orally Two persons were killed in leading to the arrest of at observed Allahabad High police firing in Mangaluru least 55 persons and the Court Chief Justice Govind on Thursday as protesters shutdown of Internet in the Mathur after seeing the across the country took to State capital. More than two photographs of the clash the streets against the Citi dozen vehicles, including a between Aligarh Muslim zenship (Amendment) Act State bus, TV broadcast vans University students and the (CAA) and the proposed Na and police vehicles, were police on the intervening tional Register of Citizens torched at different loca night of December 1516. (NRC), which in combina tions as parts of old Luck tion could potentially intro now witnessed chaotic NORTH Ī PAGE 5 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD duce a religious test for citi scenes. zenship in India. Thousands gathered at Jamia violence: response Police in the coastal city Mumbai’s August Kranti on setting up panel sought of Mangaluru lathicharged Maidan and raised slogans, NEW DELHI and later opened fire at prot displayed placards, sported The Delhi High Court on esters they claimed were painted faces, sang songs Thursday sought response trying to set fire to a police and played music. There from the Centre, the Delhi station and had targeted were repeated announce government and the police police personnel in Bunder ments throughout the rally on a bunch of petitions area. to keep things peaceful. seeking setting up of a fact finding committee to look The police said the exact Former IAS officer Kannan into violence at Jamia Milia cause of death of Nausin, 23, Gopinathan and actor Sush Islamia during protests and Jalil Kudroli, 49, would ant Singh took part in the Boiling over: People shifting former Mangaluru Mayor K. Ashraf, who was injured in protests against the Citizen be known only after post Mumbai protest. against the Citizenship Act, to safety on Thursday. * H.S. MANJUNATH (Amendment) Act. A Bench mortem examination. The Kolkata witnessed five ral listed the case for further two, who were injured in lies, of which the one held hearing on February 4. the violence, died in hospi without the support of polit tal. ical parties drew no less Over 1,200 protesters held, later released CITY Ī PAGE 2 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Mobile Internet data ser than 20,000 people. Chief vice has been suspended in Minister Mamata Banerjee SAURABH TRIVEDI Around 8,000 security Mercury drops to 5.2°C, the entire Dakshina Kanna has dared the Modi govern NEW DELHI personnel were deployed to the lowest this season da district for two days “to ment to go for a UNmoni The Delhi police on Thurs stop protesters from gather NEW DELHI prevent misuse of social me tored referendum on the day detained more than ing at Red Fort, Mandi House The minimum temperature in dia platform”, police said. contentious issue. 1,200 protesters, including and other places, except Jan the Capital dropped to 5.2 Curfew has been clamped in politicians D. Raja, Sitaram tar Mantar, in central Delhi. degrees Celsius on Thursday, the Mangaluru City Police Internet blocked Yechury, Nilotpal Basu, Brin Reserve police personnel the lowest this season, Commissionerate area till In the national capital, the according to Regional da Karat, Ajay Maken, San and paramilitary forces were December 22 midnight, and police — which is under the Meteorological Centre, New deep Dikshit and activists also deployed. Delhi. The minimum all educational institutions Union Home Ministry — de Yogendra Yadav, Umar Kha Hundreds of flagwaving temperature was three will remain shut. tained people from various lid, from central Delhi dur students and activists con notches lower than the Elsewhere across the locations and thwarted a de ing antiCitizenship (Amend verged near Jantar Mantar in season’s normal, while the country, marchers thronged monstration. Mobile phone ment) Act protests in the the afternoon after police maximum settled at 15 cities, defying prohibitory and Internet services were national capital. forcefully evicted them from degrees Celsius. orders in many places and cut in parts of the city and 19 “Around 800 protesters, areas around the Red Fort braving police crackdowns stations of the Metro Rail in CITY Ī PAGE 4 detained from near the Red and Mandi House. Permis DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD in areas under BJP rule. central Delhi were shut but Fort, Mandi House and other sion for holding any demon People from various back hundreds managed to as areas in central Delhi, were stration at the two sites was grounds, across age groups semble at Jantar Mantar, an let off after a warning. Near not granted. A number of and professions came to earshot from the parliament ly 300 of them were taken to protesters offered roses to gether in response to calls building. Around 700 flights Surajmal Stadium in Nan security personnel with a given by civil society groups were delayed and 20 were gloi, around 100 to Rajiv message of “love in return of and opposition parties, in cancelled in Delhi. Gandhi Stadium in Bawana hatred”. The police spokes Mumbai, Kolkata, Jammu, and another 50 to Keshavpu person said the protests end Lucknow, Thiruvananthap Students during a protest at ram. They were all released ed peacefully. uram, Chennai and Patna, CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 Jantar Mantar in New Delhi by evening,” said Delhi pol (With inputs from PTI) EDITORIAL Ī PAGE 10 FRIDAY REVIEW and several other towns. on Thursday. ice spokesperson M.S. Ī 4 PAGES SEE ALSO REPORTS ON PAGE 18 In Lucknow, a man died MORE REPORTS Ī PAGES 8, 12 & 13 * SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR Randhawa. Ī PAGES 2, 3 & 4 U.S. House impeaches Amid Net shutdown, CM opens free WiFi hotspot President Donald Trump ‘Centre must focus on jobs, not CAA’ Voting was largely along party lines; Senate trial next month Special Correspondent New Delhi Reuters mocrats conspired with Uk On a day when Delhi saw WASHINGTON raine to meddle in the 2016 suspension of mobile servic Donald Trump on Wednes election. es, including Internet, for day became the third U.S. Democrats said Mr. the first time, Chief Minister President to be impeached Trump held back $391 mil Arvind Kejriwal presided ov as the House of Representa lion in security aid intended er the inauguration of free tives formally charged him to combat Russiabacked WiFi hotspot installation at with abuse of power and ob separatists and a coveted the ITO bus stop here as part struction of Congress in a White House meeting for Uk of the Aam Aadmi Party go historic step that will inflame rainian President Volodymyr vernment’s flagship project CM Arvind Kejriwal partisan tensions across a Zelensky as leverage to aimed at providing free pu inaugurating the free WiFi deeply divided America. coerce Kiev into interfering blic access to Internet across hotspot on Thursday. * PTI The Democraticled Hous in the 2020 election by the Capital. e’s passage of two articles of smearing Mr. Biden. The irony of the situation which wanted to “curb ru impeachment on a mostly Dissent in writing: Protesters The second article ac was not lost on the CM, who mourmongering” during partyline vote sets the stage seeking the removal of U.S. cused Mr. Trump of obstruc said, “It is ironic that Inter the antiCitizenship (Amend for a trial next month in the President Donald Trump at tion of Congress by directing net services are down today ment) Act protests in the Republicancontrolled Se the Capitol in Washington. administration officials and [Thursday] because the pol city. nate on whether or not to * AP agencies not to comply with ice have asked for them to be Telecom service provid convict and remove him move Mr. Trump when it lawful House subpoenas for shut on the day when we are ers said, as per “the direc from office. holds its trial. testimony and documents. launching this project…We tive received from the go No President in the 243 House Speaker Nancy Pe Mr. Trump, who is seeking hope that the situation nor vernment”, services were year history of the U.S. has losi said after the vote that another fouryear term in the malises soon and the servic stopped at a “few locations” been removed from office by she would wait to name the November 2020 election, es resume.” from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. impeachment. That would House managers, or prosec has denied wrongdoing and The Chief Minister ex require a twothirds majority utors, until she knew more called the inquiry launched 109 hotspots installed pressed concern that the law in the 100member Senate, about the procedures for the by Ms. Pelosi in September a According to the Delhi go and order situation, not only meaning at least 20 Republi Senate trial. She did not “witch hunt”. vernment, 109 free WiFi in Delhi, but the entire coun cans would have to join the specify when she would send Mr.