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    Anti-CAA Stir: Violence Returns To Delhi As Seelampur Turns Warzone - VIDEOS

    Darpan News Desk, 17 Dec, 2019 09:15 PM

      The violence over the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAA) that spilled over to the Seelampur and Jafrabad area of northeast Delhi on Tuesday left 18 people including 11 policemen injured, officials said.

       

      A total of 18 people were injured including 11 policemen and seven passers-by in the violence that started in Jafrabad and spread to Seelampur, Welcome and Shastri Park. Five people have also been arrested under various sections of the IPC in connection with the violence. "The police is searching for other suspects," a Delhi Police spokesperson told.

       
       

      "The Delhi Police took the help of the Aman Committee to control the situation," he added.

       
       

      On Tuesday afternoon, some miscreants attacked a school bus, pelted stones and targeted the passers-by in the area. The passers-by abandoned their vehicles and fled to save themselves.

       
       

      The violent mob also pelted stones at the northeast Delhi DCP office, set ablaze the vehicles in the parking lot of Jafrabad police station, two police booths and three other vehicles.

       
       
       
       

      With the situation taking a turn for the worse, the police rushed five additional companies to the spot to help control the violence.

       

      A total of 14 companies were deployed along with senior officers and local staff to control the mobs.

       
       
       

      DIRTY POLITICS, URBAN NAXALS BEHIND VIOLENCE, SAYS PM MODI ON PROTESTS AGAINST CITIZENSHIP LAW

       

      Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday blamed the Congress and “urban naxals” for protests against India’s new citizenship law even as home minister Amit Shah said the government is committed to implementing the controversial legislation.

       

      At a rally in Jharkhand’s Barhait, Modi urged the Opposition to stop “spreading lies” and indulging in “dirty politics” over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) that fast-tracks the process of granting citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan.

       
       

      The home minister said in Delhi that no Indians would lose their nationality due to CAA and the legislation has been enacted only to give rights to persecuted minorities of the three neighbouring countries.

       

      He asked students who are opposing the legislation to read it properly and understand its meaning and also sought to reassure Muslims.

       
       

      “I want to tell our Muslim brothers and sisters, you don’t need to fear. Those who are living in India, there is no need to fear. No one is going to lose Indian citizenship. The Congress is trying to mislead people. The legislation is on the website. Read it. Narendra Modi believes in ‘sabka saath, sabka vikas’ [inclusive development for all]. No injustice will be done to anyone,” he said.

       

      “The Congress is spreading lies, creating an atmosphere of fear for Muslims over the new law. Citizenship (Amendment) Act neither takes away the rights of Indian citizens nor harms them in any manner,” he added.

       
       

      On Monday, Prime Minister Modi called violent protests on the new citizenship law “unfortunate and deeply distressing” and asked people not to let what he described as “vested interest groups” create a divide in society.

       

      Shortly after, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi led a two-hour protest at the India Gate and said the crackdown on students in Delhi was an “attack on the soul of India”.

       

      ILLEGAL BANGLADESHI MUSLIMS BEHIND INCITING VIOLENCE: REPORT

       

      As Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik briefed Union Home Secretary A.K. Bhalla on violence, the Delhi Police's Special Branch in a secret report revealed that several men in mobs that indulged in stone pelting and arsoning were illegal Bangladeshi Muslim migrants.

       

      An organised group of Bangladeshi (infiltrators), worst hit by the Citizen Amendment Act (CAA), were behind the violence in the Seelampur area on Tuesday, it said. Several such Bangladeshis with criminal past were instrumental in initiating violence, it said and added, some armed infiltrators wearing masks set afire the state properties.

       
       

      The protest was peaceful for the past two days, however, around 2 p.m. on Tuesday, a group of 10-15 people resorted to violence and attacked a school bus, it said.

       

      As per the report, the violence may spread to neighbouring areas with large presence of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.

       
       

      Besides Seelampur and Jaffrabad, they reside in shanties and slums in Sarita Vihar, Shaheen Bagh, Zakir Nagar, Kalyanpuri, Trilokpuri, Shastri Park, Gazipur Mandi area, and several pockets of Khoda, adjoining Delhi and Ghaziabad. The report advocates strict patrolling and security arrangements in these localities where violent protests could emerge.

       
       

      According to sources, the Bangladeshi migrants staying in Delhi for years are the worst hit by the CAA. They would have to return to their country of origin or face detention. Thus, they incited and indulged in violence, a DCP rank officer told IANS.

       

      Delhi Police sources said, a list of illegal Bangladeshi migrants with criminal cases had been circulated to police stations for tracing and arresting them.

       
       

      The Delhi Police has a separate Bangladeshi cell in each 15 districts, which have prepared exhaustive list of such migrants with involvement in crimes, like thefts, pick-pocketing and snatching.

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