Delhi tense
train was about to halt at the metro station, according to a PTI reporter who was at the spot.
The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel, responsible for the security of the Delhi Metro, intercepted the protesters and handed them over to the police.
“On February 29, at about 10:25 hours, six youths were seen shouting slogans at Rajiv Chowk metro station, Delhi. They were immediately intercepted by CISF personnel & thereafter handed over to Delhi Metro Rail Police officials for further action. Metro Rail operation remained,” the CISF said in a statement.
A senior CISF official said the unidentified men were raising pro-caa slogans.
DCP (Metro) Vikram Porwal said, “We have detained six men and they are being questioned.”
The violence in northeast Delhi that began as a face-off last Sunday between supporters of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and those opposing the law deteriorated into a communal clash on Monday and raged till Wednesday before police managed to get a hold on it and restore some order.
On Friday, SN Shrivastava took over as Delhi’s Commissioner of Police from Amulya Patnaik who had come under fire for failing to control the riots from spreading.
Meanwhile, on Saturday, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kapil Mishra – who has been accused of hate speech hours ahead of rioting began in northeast Delhi – attended a “peace march” organised in central Delhi’s Jantar Mantar against “jihadi terrorism”. Slogans of ‘shoot the traitors’ was also heard when the march, which concluded at the Parliament Street police station, passed through Connaught Place, news agency PTI reported.
Separately, the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) on Saturday said that the campus will remain open for victims of Delhi violence despite a notice by the varsity administration advising the outfit to refrain from doing so, allegedly due to security concerns. “JNU was open for shelter in 1984, it shall remain open for shelter today. It shall always remain open for sheltering the victims of state oppression,” a tweet by JNUSU said, referring to the 1984 anti-sikh riots in Delhi.