OVER 2000 BOOKED IN ALIGARH
No untoward incident has been reported from any place since Sunday evening
ALIGARH/AGRA: A day after clashes broke out between police and antiCAA protesters in old city area of Aligarh on Sunday, the situation remained tense but peaceful on Monday. Eight FIRs were lodged at the Aligarh Kotwali police station and one each at Civil Lines and Delhi Gate police stations of Aligarh against 50 named and 2000 unidentified people, including 1000 women.
ALIGARH/AGRA : A day after clashes broke out between police and anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (anti-CAA) protesters in Aligarh on Sunday, the situation in the old city area, which was the epicentre of the violence, remained tense but peaceful on Monday, the police said.
“No untoward incident has been reported from any place since Sunday evening,” additional director general of police, Agra zone, Ajay Anand said.
Eight FIRs were lodged at the Aligarh Kotwali police station and one each at Civil Lines and Delhi Gate police stations of Aligarh against 50 named and 2000 unidentified people, including 1000 women, the police said. Six of these FIRs were lodged on the complaints of those injured in the violence while the others were lodged by police officers, the police added.
“These cases have been registered after Sunday’s violence,”’ stated Rajendra Singh, the officer in-charge of Kotwali police station.
District magistrate Chandra Bhushan Singh and Aligarh senior superintendent of police Muniraj G, who took up the new assignment a few hours before the clashes, patrolled the affected areas of the city to ensure law and order. The suspension of Internet services in Aligarh was extended by another 24 hours till Tuesday midnight.
“As a precautionary measure, internet services have been suspended,” said the DM. The DM denied any firing by the police during the clashes. He warned that any attempt to spread rumours would be dealt with an iron hand.
The ADG said Mohamad Tariq Munawwar, 22, who received gunshot injuries in Sunday’s violence, was now stable and had been shifted to the intensive care unit (ICU) at the Trauma Centre of the Jawaharlal Nehru hospital after doctors performed an emergency surgery on him.
“If necessary, we will shift him to AIIMS New Delhi. Currently, however, doctors are satisfied with his progress,” Anand said, adding that the police were in the process of identifying the miscreants involved.
“At the same time, we are initiating confidence-building measures with the help of community leaders to help in restoring normalcy in all affected areas,” he said. Additional district magistrate (ADM), City, Rakesh Malpadi said,” The police are identifying the role of AMU (Aligarh Muslim University) students and local residents in the protest and violence.”
Violence led to arson and stone-pelting in the old city on Sunday, during which a 22-yearold man was shot at allegedly by miscreants and 11 others, including three policemen, were injured.
Meanwhile, over 200 women staged a protest against NRC and CAA on a key bypass road in Jeevan Garh area of Aligarh, about three kilometres from the district headquarters on Monday evening
Additional police teams were deployed in the area to maintain law and order. “We are trying to speak to the protesters in order to vacate the spot,” Aligarh DM Chandra Bhushan Singh said.