Lucknow: FIR against 21 named, hundreds of unnamed people for raising inflammatory slogans, blocking traffic during Anti CAA protest

The Uttar
Pradesh police said on Monday that it has filed FIR against 21 named and
hundreds of unnamed people for allegedly raising inflammatory slogans and
blocking the traffic during protest against the amended citizenship law in the
state capital.

Advertisment

Anti-Citizenship
(Amendment) Act protest has been continuing in Lucknow’s Clock Tower area since
17 January and till now a number of people have been arrested.

The anti-CAA
protestors had on Sunday raised provocative and inflammatory slogans and
organised a march around the Clock Tower where they had been holding protest
against CAA since last month, police said, adding when they were stopped they
pushed police personnel and blocked the traffic.

As many as
21 persons, including several women and hundreds of unidentified persons, have
been booked. The FIR has been lodged in Thakurganj police station, police said.