By Muslim Mirror
Aligarh, Feb 23: The protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) turned violent on Sunday evening after the women sitting on protest were asked to move from there.
The police fired tear gas to disperse the mob indulging in vandalism and throwing stones at personnel in upper Kot area of the Kotwali Police Station, police sources told PTI. The protesters pelted stones at personnel and also tried to set ablaze a transformer near the Jama Masjid, Aligarh district magistrate Chandrabhushan Singh told ANI.
Earlier in the day, a Bhim Army-led march by hundreds of anti-CAA protesters heading to the district collectorate earlier was stopped midway by police and Rapid Action Force jawans. The protesters had taken out the march on a call by Bhim Army chief Chandra Shekhar Aazad.
After being stopped by the police, the protesters had headed towards the Eidgah area in the city where another group of anti-CAA women protesters has been holding an indefinite dharna in the Eidgah area for the past three weeks.
Aligarh SSP Rajmuni, who took the charge only last night, earlier told media that following the abortive march, an FIR has been lodged against three persons at the Delhi Gate police station for trying to violate prohibitory orders and breach peace in the city.
The new SSP said he was monitoring the situation arising out of the anti-CAA protests, going on both at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and the old city area. He had said our “channels of communications with protesters are going to remain open but it does not mean we will allow anybody disturb the city’s law and order”.
Meanwhile a 22-year-old man was shot and seriously injured by a “miscreant” during violent clashes between the police and anti-CAA protesters in old city area .With inputs from agencies