New Delhi: Security was tightened in lots of components of Delhi with paramilitary personnel conducting evening patrols and flag marches within the northeastern components of town, Shaheen Bagh, Jamia Nagar and different delicate areas after the Centre applied the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019. The CAA invoice was handed in Parliament on December 11, 2019, resulting in protests throughout the nation, together with Delhi which witnessed months-long anti-CAA protests in 2019-2020 with Jamia Millia Islamia and Shaheen Bagh being the epicentres of the stir.
In early 2020, town witnessed communal riots in its northeastern components over the problem during which 53 individuals had been killed and over 500 injured. After the Centre applied the CAA on Monday, notifying the foundations 4 years after the contentious regulation was handed, police in Delhi’s northeast district recognized 43 hotspots and carried out patrols there.
These areas embody Seelampur, Jaffrabad, Mustafabad, Bhajanpura, Khajoori Khas and Seemapuri, information company PTI quoted officers as saying. “Police and paramilitary personnel are keeping a strict vigil to maintain law and order. We have identified 43 hotspots in northeast Delhi and night patrolling was comparatively high at these locations,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (northeast) Joy Tirkey stated.
“The safety of every person in Delhi’s northeast district is our responsibility,” he informed PTI. The Delhi Police’s cyber unit can be monitoring social media platforms to forestall provocative posts and rumours, police stated.
Another officer stated Delhi Police has held a minimum of 29 conferences with peace committee members so that individuals don’t “fall for rumours”. He stated patrolling shall be elevated in a number of components of northeast Delhi with the arrival of extra paramilitary personnel on Tuesday.
In southeast Delhi, paramilitary personnel carried out a flag march as native police carried out patrolling on bikes.
With the revealing of the CAA guidelines that got here days forward of the announcement of the Lok Sabha elections, the Modi authorities will now begin granting Indian nationality to persecuted non-Muslim migrants — Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis and Christians — from the three nations. The guidelines come into power with fast impact, based on a gazette notification.
