The FIR lodged in Galshaheed police station names 20 people and mentions 600 unidentified people who have been accused of shouting objectionable slogans.

MORADABAD: Police have registered an FIR against a group of protesters, mostly women, who have began an “indefinite” sit-in against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act at Eidgah Ground in Moradabad.

The FIR lodged in Ghalshaheed police station names 20 people and mentions 600 unidentified people who have been accused of shouting objectionable slogans.

Of the unnamed people, 400 are men while 200 are women.

A large number of police personnel have been deployed at the ground.

Moradabad District Magistrate Rakesh Singh said Section 144 of CrPC has been imposed and action will be taken on any “anti-social elements indulging in violence”.

“No permission was sought from the administration for the demonstration, so it is illegal but we are watching,” he said.

Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) prohibits assembly of four or more people in an area.

It is, however, being claimed that the Eidgah where they began their protest since Wednesday is a “private” place and the CrPC section does not apply to them.

The protesters claimed that the CAA and proposed National Register of Citizens were unconstitutional and their implementation will create communal tensions.

A woman activist, who did not want to be named, said the BJP government was trying to divert the attention from the public as it has not performed well.

Criticising the amended citizenship law, another activist said religion should not be the basis of allowing migrants into the country.

We are demanding for a withdrawal of the Act, she said.

Another woman said, “Many people from the Muslim community in Moradabad are top-class artisans in metalcraft and contribute towards high foreign currency earnings for the country. It would be difficult for many of them to prove they have jobs as they do not possess documents.”

Circle Officer (Civil Lines) Anil Samania said Khan was brought here late Friday evening and was produced before the remand magistrate who remanded him to judicial custody.

ALIGARH: Child specialist Kafeel Khan who was accused of making an inflammatory speech at AMU was remanded to judicial custody and later transferred to Mathura jail, officials said on Saturday.

Circle Officer (Civil Lines) Anil Samania said Khan was brought here late Friday evening and was produced before the remand magistrate who remanded him to judicial custody.

He was sent to the Aligarh jail, but within an hour, he was transferred to Mathura jail, the official said.

He was accused of making an inflammatory speech at the university during anti-CAA protests on December 14.

Welfare Minister Sidhu said the government of India on Friday issued the guidelines that all passengers coming from China after January 15 will be screened and tested.

CHANDIGARH: A total of 1,804 passengers have been screened for novel coronavirus at Amritsar and Mohali airports as well as border check posts of Atari and Dera Baba Nanak in Punjab, Health and Family Welfare Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu said.

He said no symptomatic or suspected case of coronavirus has been reported out of these passengers.

Sidhu said the government of India on Friday issued the guidelines that all passengers coming from China after January 15 will be screened and tested.

He said all the passengers coming from China to Punjab after January 15 are being contacted and samples are being taken. Twenty-three samples will be sent for testing at the National Institute of Virology in Pune.

He said 33 passengers with travel history to China had reported in the state, out of which two samples of suspected patients have been tested negative and eight passengers have completed 14 days observation period and the remaining 23 passengers are under regular observation of the Department of Health

Haryana-born Nehwal (29) will join the BJP reportedly in the presence of party chief J P Nadda.

Badminton player Saina Nehwal is going to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), news agency ANI reported on Wednesday.

Haryana-born Nehwal (29) will join the BJP reportedly in the presence of party chief J P Nadda.

In 2018, she tied knot with fellow shuttler Parupalli Kashyap.

The sit-in which has been on for more than a month now has inspired others to hold similar demonstrations at Park Circus Maidan in Kolkata.

KOLKATA: West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh on Tuesday courted controversy by asking why none of the Shaheen Bagh protesters who are demonstrating under the open sky during winter has fallen ill or died.

Ghosh also sought to know who is funding the Shaheen Bagh protesters. Hundreds of women have been protesting at the Shaheen Bagh in South Delhi against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

The sit-in which has been on for more than a month now has inspired others to hold similar demonstrations at Park Circus Maidan in Kolkata.

“We came to know that women and children are protesting against the CAA and are sitting under the open sky during this cold winter nights in Delhi. I wonder why none of them has fallen sick. Why does nothing happen to them? Why has not a single protester died there? This is quite absurd. Have they consumed some sort of nectar that nothing is happening to them,” Ghosh told reporters.

He also questioned the source of funding at Shaheen Bagh and Park Circus Maidan protests.

Hundreds of Muslim women are demonstrating against the CAA and the proposed nationwide NRC at the Park Circus Maidan here for 22 days.

“I wonder where from the money is coming. The truth about this will surely come out in the days to come. In Bengal, several people claimed to have committed suicide due to the panic,” he said.

Ruling TMC supremo and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has claimed that over 30 people have committed suicide because of panic over the CAA and proposed nationwide NRC.

Ghosh, the BJP MP from Midnapore seat, is known for courting controversies.

A few days back he had said anti-CAA protesters who had destroyed public property were shot like dogs in BJP-ruled states.

The BJP leader also took a dig at party general secretary and its Bengal minder Kailash Vijayvargiya for his ‘poha’ comment, saying he himself loves it and finds nothing wrong in having it in the diet.

“I myself eat poha and I don’t see anything wrong in eating it. Everybody is entitled to his or her opinion,” he said without naming Vijayvargiya.

Vijayvargiya had courted controversy last week by stating that he had found the eating habits of some of the construction labourers working at his house in Indore “strange” as they were eating ‘poha’ (flattened rice).

After talking to their supervisor and the building contractor, Vijayvargiya had said he suspected that they were from Bangladesh.

The opposition parties hit out at the government, alleging that the Pakistani-origin singer was conferred the honour for ‘sycophancy’.

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: A political slugfest has erupted over the Padma Shri awarded to singer-composer Adnan Sami.

While the opposition parties hit out at the government, alleging that the Pakistani-origin singer was conferred the honour for ‘sycophancy’, the BJP retorted that they liked only those Muslims who abused PM Modi and India. 

The party also raked up Sonia Gandhi’s Italian origin and her father’s links with Mussolini.  

In Mumbai, the NCP and the MNS demanded that the award be taken back from Sami. NCP spokesperson Nawab Malik said any Pakistani citizen could now avail Indian citizenship and Padma award by chanting “Jai Modi” and that it was an insult of 130 crore Indians.

Sami, whose father was a Pakistani Air Force veteran who fought against India in the 1965 war, became an Indian citizen in January 2016.

The arrest comes three days after three terrorists including a top JeM commander were killed in an encounter with the security forces in Awantipora.

BARAMULLA: The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Tuesday arrested a terrorist affiliated with proscribed terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) from Andergam Pattan area of Baramulla district.

He has been identified as 19-year-old Sajid Farooq Dar.

“In another operation by police one Sajid Farooq Dar Adnan, son of Farooq Ah Dar, Age 19 years, resident of Gund Prang Madvan Hajin, district Bandipora, affiliated with LET was arrested from Andergam Pattan Baramulla,” the Jammu and Kashmir Police tweeted.

The arrest comes three days after three terrorists including a top Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) commander were killed in an encounter with the security forces in Awantipora.”Killed terrorists identified as Burhan Sheikh of Tral, Moosa Abu Usman & a top JeM commander Qari Yasir, both residents of Pakistan. As per police records involved in series of terror crimes including Lethpora blast and civilian killing,” said Kashmir Zone Police.