Frisk outsiders and shady characters entering Shaheen Bagh: Lt Guv of Delhi directs Police Commissioner
New Delhi/IBNS: Lieutenant governor of Delhi Anil Baijal has directed Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik to ensure outsiders and suspicious people are frisked before they enter the Shaheen Bagh protest site, media reports said.
Baijal's directive comes in the backdrop of a shooting incident just 50 metres from the stage earlier today.
The Delhi Lt-Governor asked the police commissioner to take other steps to ensure the law and order situation is under control at the protest site.
The two incidents come days before Delhi goes to Assembly polls on Feb 8 next.
Today's firing at the protest side was the second incident in three days.
Last Thursday, a teenager from Jewar in Uttar Pradesh had opened fire with a country-made pistol at the protest site. A second-year graduate student was injured in the firing.
Protest at Shaheen Bagh started last month after the Central government passed the Citizenship Amendment Act in December last to provide citizenship to religious minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
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