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lamming the Ordinance as
unconstitutional and undemo- Noose tightened
S cratic social activist and High
Court advocate Nutan Thakur told
Tehelka that, “I am going to challenge
this controversial Ordinance because around anti-CAA
it has been promulgated with malafide
intensions, its contents are wholly
arbitrary amounting to culpable
exercise of power, violation of funda- protesters
mental rights and healthy democratic
practices.”
“The Ordinance is totally vague
and ambiguous with respect to loss of UP authorities refuse to remove 100 public hoardings put across
private properties whereas it gives the city with photos, names and addresses of the alleged protesters,
excessive powers to administration and reports kulsum mustafa
police and snatching right to judicial
remedies against the orders of Claim
Tribunal,” she added. ttar Pradesh Chief Minister It was followed by “Name & shame”
Nutan Thakur also filed an FIR on 12 Yogi Adityanah is living up to wherein 100 public hoardings were put
March in Gomti Nagar police station of his vow of punishing the anti- across the city on March 6, 2020. The
Lucknow regarding alleged trolling of CAA protesters. After the Dec hoardings have the photo, name and
high court judges on social media sites- U 19, 2019 protest in the state address of the alleged protester. The
twitter with hash tag #BehaveJustitues capital, the government has unleashed a accused are warned that they will have
and other, who ordered UP govern- series of severe punishment techniques to pay up the fine which by simple
ment to remove posters and holdings to teach the protesters a lesson that they calculation amounts to three lakh each.
of anti CAA protesters on March 9. will remember all their life. It started with If they failed to pay the fine within a
Additional District Magistrate (East) issuing of 1.55 crore recovery notices month their personal properties will be
K.P Singhhad issued orders to 28 per- to 57 persons whom the state authori- confiscated. This is an unprecedented
sons to payaround 64 lakh within 30 ties identified as those responsible for move by any government in the state
days or face confiscation of their prop- creating arson and lawlessness and for and one which has till now only been
ertiesas recovery for damage to private destroying public property. used for wanted criminals and major
and public property during the protests
against the Citizenship (Amendment)
Act at the ParivartanChowk on Decem-
ber 19. Many private vehicles, including
a state bus and police motorcycles and
OB vans were set on fire or damaged in
the acts of arson and sabotage.
The ADM hold them responsible for
illegal assembly and fixed the damages
under joint and several liability. Those
activists served notices include retired
IPS officer SR Darapuri, lawyer and
activist Mohammad Shoaib, Congress
member Sadaf Jafar, teacher Robin
Verma and cultural activist Deepak
Kabir.
Meanwhile, Shaheenbagh-like
peaceful protests are continuing for
more than two months at Ghantaghar
of Lucknow against CAA despite alleged
irritations from police administration.
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