The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed a petition that appealed to the court to remove police barricades in the Shaheen Bagh area and to shift the protesters elsewhere. Thousands of protesters, most of them women, have moved a sit-in protest on Kalindi Kunj Road since December 14 at New Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh opposing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National register of Citizens (NRC).
The petitioners said that the protest is causing inconvenience to a lot of people every day who want to travel from Delhi to Uttar Pradesh or Uttarakhand or to some hospitals in Noida as the vehicles are being diverted through the Delhi Noida Direct Flyway. The petition has also claimed that the barricades are preventing pedestrians to use the area and alleged that the protesters have placed heavy stones by the road side that had damaged public property.
The residents of Shaheen Bagh have been organising the protest for close to a month now as they believe that many of them will be rendered homeless by the CAA which seeks to give citizenships to non-Muslim refugees.
The petitioners said that the protest is causing inconvenience to a lot of people every day who want to travel from Delhi to Uttar Pradesh or Uttarakhand or to some hospitals in Noida as the vehicles are being diverted through the Delhi Noida Direct Flyway. The petition has also claimed that the barricades are preventing pedestrians to use the area and alleged that the protesters have placed heavy stones by the road side that had damaged public property.
The residents of Shaheen Bagh have been organising the protest for close to a month now as they believe that many of them will be rendered homeless by the CAA which seeks to give citizenships to non-Muslim refugees.
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