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issued around 150 such show-cause notices setting out a 7-day
deadline to respond their version.Ifthe committee is not satis-
fied with their explaination, further proceedings will be initi-
ated to recover damages. Identical notices were issued to 28
people across Rampur district, where the administration holds
them responsible for acts of violence and causing damage to
government property. The authorities also sought an expla-
nation as to why recoveries should not be made for damage
worth 14.86 lakh.
“If they are not in a position to pay, their properties
will be confiscated and auctioned,” said a senior official
in the government. The rioters were identified through
CCTV footage and photographs. The chief minister also
directed the administration to forward video clips of
protestors to NHRC.
rotesting over mass discriminate arrests of peaceful
protesters the congress party General Secretary Priyan-
P ka Gandhi Vadra in a letterto Governor has demanded
fulljudicial enquiry into the alleged ‘unlawful conduct’ of the
UP Policeduring the course of public demonstrations against
the Citizenship Amendment Act and the implementation of a
Nationwide National Register of Citizens. A delegation of UP
Congress leaders appealed the Governor Anandiben Patel to
give immediate directions to the UP Police to act within the
framework of the law.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in her letter to Governor has lev-
eled serious allegation of derelictionof duty on state police Mohammad Asif was an e-rickshaw driver while Aleemuse to
questioning its role to upheld rule of law. She accused that 23 earn his livelihood by making rotis (chapatis). Asif was report-
deaths have taken place in the state due to police excesses and edly turned away from four hospitals without treatment while
police brutality against the CAA/NRC protestors. “A full judicial Zaheer was merely standing on the roadside smoking a ciga-
inquiry is required into each and every one of these incidents rette while he was shot.
to ascertain the culpability of the administration and the police Congress party methodically informed the Governor about
and provide justice to the families of the deceased,” she added. the happening and excess meted out to protesters. In Firo-
Her letter disclosed that in Nehtaur area of Bijnor distict, a zabad, six persons have been killed since the incident of police
22-year-old young boy Anas was firing on 20 December, wherein
shot and killed by the police as Mohammed Haroon and Mohd
he left his home to buy milk on UP Deputy CM Dinesh Shafiq died in a Delhi hospital
the December 20, 2019. He ran on December 26, 2019. Fourteen
a coffee machine to support his people were seriously injured in
family. Sharma slams police firing. In Muzaffarnagar,
Another 21-year-old boy Nooru aged 30 years was shot
named Suleiman was also shot Samajwadi Party for while participating in the pro-
dead by the police same day. test on the 20th of December.
Suleiman, a hard-working stu- promising pension for The protest was peaceful and
dent preparing for the civil ser- was heading towards Meenak-
vice entrance exams in Delhi, anti-CAA protesters, says shi Chowk, Muzaffarnagar when
had returned home for a few the local Member of Parliament
days because had fever. Six peo- the opposition doesn't Sanjeev Baliyan reached the
ple were shot dead in Meerut dis- spot with his supporters. As per
trict of UP on the 20thDecember the press reports, this group in-
2019 among them Saeed Ahmed, show concern towards dulged in stone pelting as well as
Saleem and Zaheer were daily la- firing.
bourers while Mohammed Moh- injured policemen At Sambhal, two per-
sin worked as a scrap collector, sons have died in police fir-

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