CAA protesters on UP hoardings

LUCKNOW: In an act of public shaming, the district administration has installed more than 100 hoardings, making public the images, names and addresses of protestors against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act who are accused of damaging public and private property during the violent demonstrations in Lucknow in December.

The administration has also put up some hoardings announcing the amount demanded from the 53 protestors and warned that “their properties would be attached if they failed to pay the recovery amount.”

As of now, the district administration has assessed the total damages at ~1.55 crore and issued recovery notices to the 53 protestors. The notices were served soon after chief minister Yogi Adityanath warned that those involved in violence during the protests would have to pay for the damages.

The move has attracted strong reactions from the protestors, ordinary citizens, politicians, and social activists who slammed the idea of public shaming.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday issued a notice to the Central government on fresh petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 and tagged the matter with other pleas pending before it. A bench of Chief Justice SA Bobde tagged the fresh plea along with the pending petitions. The fresh petitions were filed by the Indian Muslim Federation and International Network of Democratic Indian Abroad — two groups based in the United Kingdom, with members of Indian origin. Over a hundred petitions have been filed in the apex court for and against the amended citizenship law.