Asad Rehman

The sit-in began on Sunday afternoon in Prayagraj and the ongoing agitation has seen mainly women protesters.

Meanwhile, police said that they are urging the protesters to call off their dharna. “A group of women have gathered at the park. Senior police officers are at the spot. They are talking to women. They are protesting against the CAA, NRC," said SSP (Prayagraj) Satyarth Aniruddha Pankaj.

He alleged that he and other activists were tortured in police custody and were not given food or water for 24 hours, before being produced in court.

IIT-K Deputy Director Manindra Agarwal said, “We want the students’ welfare. The committee is probing the whole incident, and not whether the Faiz poem is anti-Hindu or not.”

Residents in nearby Askarganj allege that policemen climbed onto the terraces to look for the men and when they could not find them, they hurled abuses at women.

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Satya Prakash Singh, who replaced Solanki as SHO, told The Sunday Express that apart from Solanki, local outpost in-charge Ashish Tomar, constable Mohit Kumar and three other “unidentified” policemen have been named in the FIR filed by Suleiman’s brother Shoaib.

Security drones kept watch on groups of people moving on roads and senior officers led police patrols. In Lucknow, roads wore deserted looks with heavy police bandobast in areas of the old city which was rocked by violence on December 19.

While both were shot in the abdomen, neither of the two — 15-year-old Mohammad Jeelani and 17-year-old Mohammad Shameem — have been identified by police as injured protesters.

A member of the university’s media committee, Dr Tannu Dang, said Ahmed Raza Khan, a student of History (Honours) third year, had called for a protest to be held on Tuesday.

According to the family, Raees, who used to sell papads, had gone for Friday prayers at Eidgah mosque, which became the centre of the protest against the new citizenship law in Kanpur.

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At 8.30 pm on Saturday, when The Sunday Express went there, the police outpost stood damaged, its windows and doors broken. Several vehicles parked outside were completely burnt.

Local residents have gathered outside Wakeel’s house in Daulatganj area of Thakurganj. Aslam, Wakeel’s neighbour, says Wakeel plied an auto-rickshaw that he had rented from someone.

The UP police said 3,417 people were taken into custody across the state as part of preventive action.

Police said it was yet to be verified whether the deceased, Mohammad Wakeel, was part of the protest. In nearby Sambhal, 20 people have been arrested so far and Internet facilities have been suspended.

“We have given Jaiswal a clean chit, while a chargesheet has been filed against the other accused in the case. During our investigation, we found no evidence against Jaiswal,” Mirzapur SP Dharm Veer Singh told The Indian Express.

Mohammad Zafar, deputy proctor for the university, said the protest on Monday was peaceful and university had been shut with immediate effect.