Delhi Anti-CAA Protests: Protestors Detained Near Red Fort

Scores of protestors were detained by the Delhi Police near Red Fort when they tried to take out a march to protest the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in defiance of the prohibitory orders imposed there.

Yogendra Yadav, chief of Swarajya Abhiyan, former JNU student Umar Khalid and ex-JNUSU president N Sai Balaji were among those who were detained, officials said.

Yadav Tweeted, "I have just been detained from Lal Qila. About a thousand protesters already detained. Thousands on the way. Am told we are being taken to Bawana."

I have just been detained from Lal Qila. About a thousand protesters already detained. Thousands on the way.
Am told we are being taken to Bawana.

साझी विरासत, साझी शहादत, साझी नागरिकता pic.twitter.com/RnkUNjfkzo

— Yogendra Yadav (@_YogendraYadav) December 19, 2019

Twoprotests are scheduled in the national capital, one by students and activistsand the other by left parties. The two marches are to meet at Shaheen Park nearITO.