Delhi Police clears Shaheen Bagh protest site amid Coronavirus outbreak
New Delhi/IBNS: Bringing an end to the three-month long anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act agitation, the Delhi Police on Tuesday cleared the Shaheen Bagh protest site amid the outbreak of the deadly Novel Coronavirus.
Police said they had requested the protesters to vacate the place initially.
When the protesters had refused to listen to them, police acted and vacated the site.
The Kalindi Kunj Road, which was blocked for three months, was almost empty in last few days amid COVID-19 outbreak.
Making a symbolic presence, the protesters have left their slippers at the site.
"We are not ending the protest, come what may. But we are aware of the danger posed by Covid-19, so we adopted this type of protest for the day," Khurshid Alam, one of the organisers of the protest, said as quoted by News 18.
The CAA, which was passed by Parliament in December last year, aims to grant citizenship to Hindu, Sikh, Christian, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi but not Muslim refugees who came to India from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan before 2015.
According to worldometers.info, India has till Tuesday morning 511 positive cases with 10 lives lost to the virus (Indian official toll is 9 so far).
More than 30 people have been infected with the virus in the national capital.
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