Security beefed up in Shaheen Bagh area after locals raise provocative slogans

A day after a gunman opened fire, second incident since last Friday, a large group of locals and protesters assembled near the Shaheen Bagh sit-in protest site demanding the anti-CAA and NRC protesters, who are holding an indefinite demonstration, to vacate the blocked arterial road, an India Today report said.

The locals agitating against the indefinite dharna, which is said to have caused immense difficulties to the inhabitants of the area, were removed to a different location in buses by Delhi Police after they chanted  "desh ke gaddaro ko, goli maro s***on ko"(shoot the traitors) . However, some people are still present and chanting slogans, the report added.

Security has been beefed up in the area and senior police officers, including Joint Commissioner of Police(South Range) Devesh Srivastava and Deputy Commissioner of Police(Southeast) Chinmoy Biswal, are present to ensure there is no law and order situation.

Yesterday, Lieutenant governor of Delhi Anil Baijal 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.

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, who have taken refuge in India.