Hyderabad police stall CAA stir again

Hyderabad: Hyderabad police for the third time denied permission for Sunday’s proposed ‘Women’s dharna’ against CAA-NPR-NRC at Dharna Chowk, Indira Park, even though the High Court had ordered the authorities to consider permissions in accordance with law.

Telangana-AP Joint Action Committee against CAA & NRC had approached the High Court on rejection of their application for a women sit-in protest by the Hyderabad city police and the Court had disposed the petition instructing police authorities to consider the application seeking permission at the new location, Dharna Chowk on Sunday.

Earlier, it sought to conduct 48-hour sit-in protest at any place in and around Darushifa, Eidgah Mir Alam or Eidgah Bilali, Masab Tank, However, the police were adamant following which the organisers readied to conduct the protest at Dharna Chowk and for only six hours.

Convener JAC Mr Mushtaq Malik pointed out that when he went to speak to Police Commissioner on Saturday in connection with programme he was handed ‘rejected’ letter by Chaderghat police, citing silly reasons. He said that at the instance of Police Commissioner, Mr Anjani Kumar, the JAC has submitted a fresh application seeking permission to protest at Dharna Chowk with an assurance that it would end by 5 pm.

He warned that there will be no change in the schedule, whether police accord permission or not, adding that the police machinery will be responsible for consequences if it denied permission.