'At least two activists from Delhi’s Khureji Khas area, who were arrested from an anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protest site on Wednesday afternoon, have been physically tortured in judicial custody, according to their family members. They have also been booked for rioting, attempting to murder a police official, and possessing and using firearms, which their families and other protesters claim are false and unsubstantiated charges.
'Close to 100 students from the Pondicherry University were forcibly removed, shoved into vans and transported to another block of the institute for protesting against a fee hike. This action by the local police came on the 20th day of the demonstration and ahead of Vice President Venkaiah Naidu's visit to the University on Wednesday. Students of the University began protests on February 6 against the hike in fees for several courses offered by the institute. They alleged that the increase was exorbitant, with some postgraduate courses like Computer Science seeing a 100% hike in fees.
'The Bihar Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution not to implement the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in the State. It also said the National Population Register (NPR) would be implemented in Bihar in the old 2010 format...'
'As violence over the amended citizenship law continued uninterrupted for the third straight day in northeast Delhi, the Jaffrabad road blocked by protesters, most of them women, since Saturday night, has been cleared by Delhi Police, and shoot-at-sight order issued in some affected areas on Tuesday... The death toll in the violence climbed to thirteen and nearly 150 injured were admitted to the GTB hospital. Affected areas include Maujpur, Jaffrabad, Bhajanpura, Yamuna Vihar, Chand Bagh and Gokalpuri in Northeast Delhi...'
'A 25-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound as clashes broke out between anti-citizenship-law protesters and police in Aligarh’s Shah Jamal area on Sunday evening, officials said. Friends rushed the injured man, identified as Mohammad Tariq, on a motorcycle to a local hospital where his condition was said to be critical. Doctors at the hospital were quoted as saying that Tariq, a hardware shopkeeper, had a firearm injury on the left side of his chest...'
'Soon after a rally was taken out by BJP leader Kapil Mishra near a demonstration against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in northeast Delhi’s Jaffrabad on Sunday, clashes erupted between pro- and anti-CAA protesters in the area. Security officials at the spot admitted the violence, including stone-pelting, threatened to take a communal turn, but was controlled.
'Clashes erupted in Northeast Delhi between supporters and opponents of the Citizenship Amendment Act on Monday. The Delhi Police tried to quell the protests, but one policeman and a civilian died during the violence. Another police official was injured. Pictures showed supporters of the Act jumping police barricades, pelting stones, throwing petrol bombs, attacking a Muslim man and damaging tents set up the anti-Citizenship Act demonstrators...'
'...The protesters appeared to be divided along religious lines, and some repeatedly hailed Hindu god Ram while pelting stones at the predominantly Muslim group opposed to the new law. A Reuters witness saw at least one Muslim man and a burqa-clad woman beaten by dozens of pro-law protesters with sticks and iron rods... But for several hours, Reuters witnesses saw the outnumbered policemen mostly stand beside those backing the citizenship law, a majority Hindu group, and do little to quell the violence.
'Sri Rama Sene leader and head of Karuneshwara mutt Siddalinga Swami on Saturday courted fresh controversy when he suggested that student protesters should “meet the same fate” as the slain journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh. He was speaking at an event by the Yuva Viveka Bharata Sangha and a video of the event emerged on Saturday. "(They are) only 14-15 years, they are talking bad words about Modi and Shah. I think soon they should be made to go where Gauri Lankesh is," Siddalinga Swami said, as the crowd is heard cheering him on...'
'Ever since the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) began, Amulya Leona Noronha, the 19-year-old firebrand student activist, showed that she could go toe-to-toe with the biggest names in the city’s anti-CAA movement. Known for her fiery speeches and ability to hold audiences in thrall, there appeared to be no end to the student of journalism’s meteoric rise in activist circles. That rise appeared to come to an end on Thursday night, following Leona’s controversial ‘Long Live Pakistan’ sloganeering...
