{"id":320330,"date":"2020-02-24T11:10:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T11:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320330"},"modified":"2020-02-24T11:10:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T11:10:10","slug":"clashes-break-out-over-caa-in-delhi-vehicles-houses-set-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/clashes-break-out-over-caa-in-delhi-vehicles-houses-set-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Clashes break out over CAA in Delhi; vehicles, houses set on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-320331 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/clash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/clash.jpg 532w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/clash-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/>Clashes broke out in northeast Delhi on Monday as pro and anti-CAA groups threw stones at each other, torched houses and attacked shops.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Violence was reported from Bhajanpura, Maujpur and Jaffrabad area of Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Delhi police fired tear gas shells to disperse the protesters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Delhi Metro closed entry and exit at the Jaffrabad and Maujpur-Babarpur stations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Entry &amp; exit of Jaffrabad and Maujpur-Babarpur are closed. Trains will not be halting at these stations,&#8221; the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal called the news of violence \u2018very distressing\u2019 and urged Union Home Minister Amit Shah to intervene to restore law and order and ensure peace and harmony is maintained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cVery distressing news regarding disturbance of peace and harmony in parts of Delhi coming in. I sincerely urge Hon\u2019ble LG n Hon&#8217;ble Union Home Minister to restore law and order n ensure that peace and harmony is maintained. Nobody should be allowed to orchestrate flagrations,\u201d Kejriwal tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clashes broke out in northeast Delhi on Monday as pro and anti-CAA groups threw stones at each other, torched houses and attacked shops. Violence was reported from Bhajanpura, Maujpur and Jaffrabad area of Delhi. Delhi police fired tear gas shells to disperse the protesters. The Delhi Metro closed entry and exit at the Jaffrabad and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":320331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[12262,429],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320332,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320330\/revisions\/320332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/320331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}