CAA protests: 12 policemen among 21 injured in violence at Seelampur

A “hidden mob”, which swelled to 4,000 to 5,000 people, indulged in “minor clashes” with police in Seelampur, officials said.

Twenty-one people, including 12 policemen and six civilians, were injured in violence that erupted during a protest against the amended Citizenship Act in Delhi’s Seelampur on Tuesday, police said. Three personnel of Rapid Action Force were also injured, the officer said. Protestors torched several bikes, pelted policemen with stones and damaged buses and a police booth in Seelampur. A “hidden mob”, which swelled to 4,000 to 5,000 people, indulged in “minor clashes” with police in Seelampur, officials said.

AAP urges peace: The AAP and its Seelampur MLA Haji Ishraq appealed to the people to register their protest peacefully. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also appealed to Delhiites to maintain peace, saying violence cannot be tolerated in a civilised society.

Ex-Cong MLA named in Jamia FIR: The police has named former Congress MLA Asif Khan as an accused in its FIR on the Jamia violence on December 15, officials said on Tuesday.

Cops enter Madras varsity: A section of the students of the Madras University continued their protest for the second day on Tuesday as police entered the campus. Defiant students said they will continue their agitation “through the night”.

Bangladesh seeks to postpone meet: Bangladesh has sought postponement of two meetings on river management scheduled for later this week, sources said. Officials from the Ministry of Jal Shakti were to meet their Bangladeshi counterparts in New Delhi on Thursday and Friday…

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Citizenship Act mix: Violence rocks Delhi; transports burnt, 60 harmed

BJP accused the Aam Aadmi Party for the savagery and requested it quit “inciting individuals”, however the AAP dismissed the charge

Dissenters burnt four open transports and two police vehicles on Sunday as they conflicted with police in south Delhi’s New Friends’ Colony close Jamia Millia Islamia college during an exhibition against the corrected Citizenship Act, leaving six cops and two fire fighters harmed, authorities said.

The issue began during a dissent by understudies of Jamia college. Be that as it may, an understudies’ body later said they don’t had anything to do with the brutality and pyromania and asserted that “specific components” had participate and “upset” the showing. Not long after the brutality, Jamia Millia Islamia Chief Proctor Waseem Ahmed Khan guaranteed that the Delhi Police entered the grounds coercively with no authorization and beat up staff individuals and understudies who had to leave the grounds.

Denouncing the police activity, college bad habit chancellor Najma Akhtar said understudies who were inside the library have been taken out and are protected. After the brutality, a Jamia understudies’ body gave an announcement, saying, “We have on numerous occasions kept up that our fights are quiet and peaceful. We remain by this methodology.” Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said any sort of savagery is unsuitable and fights ought to stay tranquil. Appointee CM Manish Sisodia said that all schools in southeast Delhi would stay shut on Monday...

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