Killing someone and getting killed in riots or by police is currently happening in Indian Continent’s The Republic of India even Section 144 has been imposed in many regions of India in the backdrop of the protests against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act. In Bengaluru, prohibitory orders will remain in place from Thursday morning to December 21 late night. In Mangaluru, the ban would be for two days from Thursday morning till Saturday midnight. The section 144 of Indian penal code is an administrative power to the local or state government that the government can impose on citizens that no more than four person can assemble, get together or stand together in any public place to keep the peace in place.
Further this section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) of 1973 authorizes the Executive Magistrate of any state or territory to issue an order to prohibit the assembly of four or more people in an area. According to the law, every member of such ‘unlawful assembly’ can be booked for engaging in rioting.
The implementation of this law has only turned the protestors more rebellious and violent. Four new protesters have been reported dead due to fresh clashes with police in northern India, a medical official said Friday (Dec 20), bringing the death toll to 14 in more than a week of unrest triggered by a contentious citizenship law.
More than a dozen metro stations were closed for the second straight day in the capital of India in New Delhi to keep the peace in place and to avoid any riots against the people and government.
In India’s most populous state Uttar Pradesh, where mobile Internet and text messaging services were cut in several areas, fresh clashes erupted in Lucknow, the state capital of Uttar Pardesh. Internet and text messaging services were suspended due to inflaming posts on social media that were both misleading and aggressive.
Violence also spread to other parts of the state, where almost 20 per cent of the 200 million populations are Muslim, with demonstrators throwing stones on law enforcement officials and para-military officials and police firing tear gas.
In Modi’s home state of Gujarat, there were new clashes between the security forces and protesters in Vadodara city, a day after street battles in the largest city Ahmedabad left 20 policemen and 10 locals injured.
Some student protestors are volunteering to provide pick and drop services, shelters, food and other amenities to the people who were ‘detained by law enforcement agencies under section 144 of Indian Penal Code granting power to stop people from getting together for any reason.
The whole scenario is only getting uglier and worse. “The cruel intentions of PM Modi have been exposed, to divide and rule.” wrote an agitated protestor on social media.
The question that is still unanswered by the Government of India remains that ‘is not Government supposed to work for the people?’ While India is home to 200 million Muslims, why is that it cannot contain its peace with the diversity?
“According to media reports, Malaysia’s Prime Minister has yet again remarked on a matter that is entirely internal to India. CAA provides for citizenship through naturalization to be fast-tracked for non-citizens who are persecuted minorities from three countries,” the MEA said in a statement.
“The CAA doesn’t impact the status of any Indian citizen or deprive any Indian of any faith of her/his citizenship. Malaysian PM’s remark is factually inaccurate. We call upon Malaysia to refrain from commenting on internal matters of India, without any knowledge and understanding of facts,” the statement made by Indian Higher Officials and government spokespersons of India.
Speaking on the sidelines of the Kuala Lumpur Summit 2019 on Friday, the Malaysian Prime Minister questioned the “necessity” of the Citizenship Act, when Indians have “lived together for 70 years”, according to the media reports.
The CAA makes it easier for “persecuted” minorities from three neighboring countries to get citizenship but not if they are Muslims, Mohammad was quoted as saying. “I am sorry to see that India, which claims to be a secular state, now is taking action to deprive some Muslims of their citizenship,” said the 94-year-old leader of Muslim faith. “If we do that here, I do not know what will happen. There will be chaos and instability, and everybody will suffer,” he added.
Muslims, who form nearly 14 percent of India’s 1.3 billion people, fear the right-wing party aims to marginalize them through these moves, leading to protests raging for more than a week.
It is not understandable that why people of India are clashing against the government of India, while each country has the right to amend its citizenship laws. India has amended its citizenship laws not granting citizenship to the people of other countries, who don’t belong to India. According to the scholars of one of the University asked a question from the general public that while this law doesn’t apply to the Muslims, who are born or already living in India before 2014. According to senior advocate of Punjab High Court Ms. GK Mann that this is just opposition party and its leaders that is creating this mess in India including burning the properties and creating clashes between police and protestors.
In Delhi in Jamia Muslim University students and police had clashes, where more than 97 police officers were injured during the clashes between protestors students and police forces and arrested people were not even students and were planted to cause these clashes between the police and students.
