{"id":321438,"date":"2020-03-24T05:31:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T05:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321438"},"modified":"2020-03-24T05:31:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T05:31:19","slug":"shaheen-bagh-protest-site-cleared-by-police-amid-delhi-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/shaheen-bagh-protest-site-cleared-by-police-amid-delhi-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaheen Bagh protest site cleared by police amid Delhi lockdown"},"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-321440 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/shaheen-bagh-protest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/shaheen-bagh-protest.jpg 516w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/shaheen-bagh-protest-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/shaheen-bagh-protest-473x420.jpg 473w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/>In view of the complete lockdown in the national capital over highly contagious novel coronavirus, Delhi&#8217;s Shaheen Bagh protest site was cleared on Tuesday morning where several protesters were stationed for several months for the agitation against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to Deputy Commissioner of Police (southeast) RP Meena, people at the protest venue were requested to vacate the place as lockdown has been imposed by government due to coronavirus outbreak. However, when they refused, police cleared the area and detained few protesters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;All protest sites have been cleared -Jaffrabad, Jamia and Turkman Gate. Some persons detained in all these places as well,\u201d Delhi police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This came after\u00a0Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced a lockdown\u00a0in Delhi to prevent a spread of coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Delhi has so far reported 31 coronavirus cases, including one death as the number of COVID-19 cases in country rose to 492, according to Health Ministry website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">To contain the spread of coronavirus, thirty states and Union Territories declared a complete lockdown.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In view of the complete lockdown in the national capital over highly contagious novel coronavirus, Delhi&#8217;s Shaheen Bagh protest site was cleared on Tuesday morning where several protesters were stationed for several months for the agitation against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). According to Deputy Commissioner of Police (southeast) RP Meena, people at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":321440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[429,12496],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321438"}],"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=321438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321441,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321438\/revisions\/321441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/321440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}