Delhi Police Clears Shaheen Bagh Protest Site

New Delhi: Delhi Police cleared the Shaheen Bagh protest site in the national capital in the early hours of Tuesday. since December 15 and are reported to have detained nine people.

Curfew has been imposed in Delhi and the national capital's borders with UP and Haryana have been sealed. Section 144 has also been imposed across the national capital region. Delhi Police are also reported to have cleared a protest site in Seelampur in North East Delhi.

The authorities are permitting only those associated with essential services to go out.

Hundreds of women have been staging a 24 x 7 demonstration at Shaheen Bagh in Delhi, against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Register of Citizens (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR).

The protesters have been demanding revocation of the amended citizenship act. The Supreme Court is hearing a petition on eviction of the protest site. The petitioner contended that the protest was causing public inconvenience as roads in the area were blocked on account of the demonstration.

Last month, the apex court had appointed interlocutors senior Supreme Court advocates, Sanjay Hegde and Sadhana Ramachandran and former Cabinet Secretary Wajahat Habibullah, to mediate with the demonstrators to appeal to them to call off their protest. After three rounds of mediation, the interlocutors submitted a report to the Supreme Court.

Before the apex court could deliver its final judgment, the outbreak of novel coronavirus created a global health emergency and India has also been in its grip since January 31 the first case was reported.

A similar protest being staged in Lucknow was celebrated Ghanta Ghar was called off by the demonstrators on sunday in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak.