However, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (West Zone) Vikas Tripathi dismissed the allegations, saying that they did not take away any belongings from the protestors but only stopped them from setting up tents at the site.
Amidst widespread Anti-CAA protests in the country, a group of women protestors sitting in silent protest at Ghanta Ghar area in Lucknow on Saturday alleged that Uttar Pradesh Police confiscated food items and blankets from them.
Hundreds of women and children gathered near the Clock Tower in Lucknow's Ghanta Ghar to voice their dissent against the controversial law. The protests were going on peacefully with people holding the national flag, singing the national anthem, when the police reached the scene and started taking away food items and blankets, according to some protestors present at the scene.
Angered by the police action, the protestors began to raise slogans against the police, calling them 'thieves.'
However, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (West Zone) Vikas Tripathi dismissed the allegations, saying that they did not take away any belongings from the protestors but only stopped them from setting up tents at the site.
The protests near the Clock Tower in Lucknow's Ghanta Ghar has been going on in full-swing since the past three days. The protests began with Muslim women and children but are now being attended by people across religions.
Severe protests have erupted in various parts of the country ever since the central government passed the contentious act, which grants Indian citizenship to refugees belonging to the Hindu, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist, Parsi, and Jain communities from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh.
Several civil society members and activists have stated that the act discriminates against Muslims, a claim which has been refuted by the Centre, which puts that the act will grant long-deserved citizenship to refugees who have faced religious persecution in these neighbouring countries.
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