Pro-CAA and Anti-CAA Groups Clash in Delhi, Metro under Lockdown

New Delhi, February 23, 2020:

A scuffle broke out between two groups of people near Jaffrabad in Maujpur in northeast Delhi on Sunday evening near a metro station where a massive crowd had gathered to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

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Tensions came to the fore when hundreds of anti-CAA protesters, mostly women, blocked a road near the Jaffrabad metro station which connects Seelampur with Maujpur and Yamuna Vihar. The anti-CAA brigade soon drew the ire of a pro-CAA crowd who pelted the protesters with stones and soon, a full-scale war broke out between the two factions, with police later intervening with tea gas to scatter the agitating parties.

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The Quint reports that heavy security was deployed in the area to bring the situation under control.

An eyewitness told The Quint that protesters who were present in the vicinity of the Maujpur metro station were attacked by an alleged pro-CAA group. The anti-CAA group alleges that they were attacked with stones and car windows were smashed. The DMRC has announced that the entry and exit gates of Maujpur-Babarpur metro stations are closed.

Meanwhile, stone-pelting was reported in Delhi's Maujpur area where a pro-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) rally was going on, not too far from the protest site.

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