UP: Burqa clad women booked by Aligarh police for protesting against CAA

AGRA: The Aligarh police on Saturday registered a case against 70 burqa clad unidentified women for taking out a protest march against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in the city on Friday after namaz. Later, two youths were also arrested by the police for provoking the women to hold the protest.
According to police, the women were booked under section 188 of IPC as they had violated prohibitory orders (section 144 of CrPC), which was imposed in the city.The women earlier sat on protest opposite to Jamalpur Eidgah but they were removed by the police.
After few hours, they started the protest march from Khwaja Haleem Ki kothi to Dodpur and shouted slogans against CAA/NRC. They were also inviting local residents to participate in the march, said police.
Circle officer, civil lines, Anil Samaniya said that the arrested youths, Mohd Sajid and Mohd Adil, in the age group of 20s, were booked under section 151 (preventive arrest) of CrPC. He said, the duo were remanded to judicial custody for 14 days.
Following the incident, a team of police personnel along with Rapid Action Force (RAF) staged a march and walked through the city for 5 km stretch where women made an attempt to stage the protest. Police officials said that foot patrolling was conducted as a deterrent to mischief mongers who could want to disturb law and order situation in the city.
Besides, a social activist, Maria Alam Umar, who was scheduled to protest against CAA/NRC at Bab-e-Syed on Saturday, claimed that she was detained by the police in her house. She alleged that this government doesn’t want anyone to protest against this law and is suppressing the voice of the people. She said such kind of practice can not stop them from raising their voices against the wrongdoing of the government.
She said that it is wrong to say that this law will affect only Muslim community as poor class people will also be badly affected by it. "They will have to arrange the documents which are almost impossible for them to collect," she said, adding that now everyone will have to stand in a queue to prove their citizenship.
According to police, she wanted to give a memorandum to the chief minister Yogi Adityanath against CAA, which had been collected by a local administrative officer from her house.