Heavy security at Shaheen Bagh, Sec 144 imposed

New Delhi, March 1

The police made a heavy deployment of security personnel in the Shaheen Bagh area, where several women have been leading a protest on the road against the new citizenship law for more than two months, as a precautionary measure on Sunday, officials said. Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code had also been imposed in Shaheen Bagh area near Jamia Millia Islamia, they said.

The police deployment has come after a fringe right-wing group, Hindu Sena, gave a call to clear the Shaheen Bagh road on March 1. However on Saturday, with the intervention of the police, they called off their proposed protest in Shaheen Bagh.

“The proposed protest call was cancelled with timely intervention. But as a precautionary measure, we have made heavy police deployment here,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Southeast) RP Meena said. —PTI