Tag: Anti-CAA protests
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Delhi Police arrest 2 JNU students over anti-CAA protest in February
Devangana Kalita and Natasha Narwal are the founding members of Pinjra Tod group (Break the cage), a movement for women's rights especially the college students, which began against the disciplinary curfew timings for the hostelers.
May 24, 2020 -
Delhi Police arrests another Jamia student for alleged anti-CAA violence
Asif's arrest comes after Delhi Police arrested 27-year-old Jamia Scholar Safoora Zargar last month, who is now in the second trimester of her pregnancy.
May 18, 2020 -
Allahabad HC takes anti-CAA protesters’ hording case suo motu, moves hearing to 3 pm on UP govt’s request
The Chief Justice asked the UP government if it was not encroaching on personal space and liberty of citizens and expressed hope that the administration will take corrective measures before the hearing begins.
March 8, 2020 -
Delhi High Court asks hospitals to videograph autopsies of people killed in riots
A bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and IS Mehta directed the authorities to preserve the DNA samples of all the bodies and not dispose of any unidentified body till the next date of hearing.
March 6, 2020 -
Polish student of Jadavpur University asked to leave India after attending anti-CAA rally in Kolkata
Recently, Afsara Anika Meem, a first-year Bangladeshi undergraduate student in the Fine Arts department of the Visva-Bharati University too was served an FRRO notice for reportedly engaging in "anti-government" activities after she posted photographs of an anti-CAA demonstration, held on the campus, on social media.
March 1, 2020 -
Two dead, over 16 injured in Meghalaya after anti-CAA clashes erupt
Officials said that authorities are mulling imposing a night curfew in Shillong from 10 pm in view of the prevailing situation.
March 1, 2020 -
10 dead, 150 injured in northeast Delhi violence, prohibitory orders till March 24
Union Home Minister Amit Shah will meet Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the Lieutenant Governor and leaders of political parties today in the afternoon.
February 25, 2020 -
Kejriwal calls for emergency meeting with MLAs after intense violence in northeast Delhi
In view of the violence, the DMRC has also terminated its services at Jaffrabad, Maujpur-Babrpur, Gokulpuri, Johri Enclave, and Shiv Vihar metro stations.
February 25, 2020 -
Shaheen Bagh mediators submit report, SC hearing on Feb 26
The top court chose senior advocates Sanjay Hegde and Sadhna Ramchandran and former bureaucrat Wajahat Habibullah to talk to the Citizenship Amendment Act protesters blocking the 13A road that is a crucial link between Delhi and Noida, and find an alternative protest location.
February 24, 2020 -
Women protesters block Delhi road, say, ‘will not move till CAA is revoked’; Jaffrabad metro station closed
They are also supporting Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Aazad’s call for a ‘Bharat Bandh’ on February 23 against a Supreme Court ruling that states were not bound to provide reservation in promotion and appointments in public employment and also reservation for appointments and promotions to public posts is 'not a fundamental right.'
February 23, 2020 -
‘Sinister campaign on social media to influence Judiciary’: Ravi Shankar Prasad
Prasad also said that the right to privacy is very important, and it must be protected. 'But, terrorists and corrupts cannot claim right to privacy,' said Prasad.
February 22, 2020 -
Father of woman who raised ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogans disowns her views on CAA
Meanwhile, Naronha filed a complaint in a local police station at Koppa against some unidentified BJP activists for allegedly attacking his house in Koppa for Amulya's pro-Pakistan slogans.
February 21, 2020 -
Mangaluru violence probe: Police to be summoned for shooting anti-CAA protestors
On December 19, two people were killed in police firing as protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) turned violent.
February 21, 2020 -
Jamia Coordination Committee releases video footage of Delhi cops assaulting students in library
The Opposition led by the Congress reiterated its demand for action against the Delhi police.
February 16, 2020 -
‘Maha-Morcha’ at Mumbai’s Azad Maidan against CAA, NRC, NPR
According to the new law, members of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian communities, who have come from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, till December 31, 2014, facing religious persecution there, will not be treated as illegal immigrants but given Indian citizenship.
February 16, 2020 -
Delhi HC seeks Centre’s stand on Jamia violence on plea by student who lost vision during police crackdown
On December 15 last year, police barged in the Jamia campus in the hunt for the protesters who were protesting outside the varsity campus against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). The protesters were believed to be Jamia students, however, the investigation reports stated differently.
February 11, 2020 -
Mumbai: BJP MLA felicitates cab driver who took poet-activist to police on overhearing anti-CAA talks
On Wednesday night, while traveling by an Uber cab, he was discussing protests against the CAA with a friend on phone. Overhearing the chat, the cab driver summoned policemen and urged them to arrest Sarkar. Sarkar was taken to a police station and allowed to leave after an inquiry.
February 8, 2020