Road block due to police, not women in Shaheenbagh: claim in Supreme Court

New delhi date. February 23, 2020, Sunday

Women have been sitting on dharna for two and a half months in Delhi's Shaheenbagh in protest of the CAA, NRC. However, there have been allegations in the Supreme Court that these women have blocked the road. Responding to the dispute, former Chief Information Commissioner in the Supreme Court, Wajahat Habibullah, said that there was a road block due to police and not due to women.

Bhim Army chief Chandra Shekhar, activist Syed Bahadur Abbas Naqvi also made a similar statement in the Supreme Court and an affidavit was submitted jointly for this. Habibullah visited Shaheen Bagh. After that the answer was presented to the Supreme Court.

Those presenting the affidavit said in the Supreme Court that where the women of Shaheen Bagh are sitting, there is no road or no businessmen are having difficulty in doing business.

However, due to the large number of policemen who have been mobilized around the exhibition site, all these problems are taking place. As the police have planted briquettes in a very large area around Shaheen Bagh, which has made it difficult for people to come. That is, the women of Shaheen Bagh cannot be blamed for this problem.

At the same time, he claimed that the police had been deployed to a greater extent than should be seen in Shaheen Bagh. While Chandrasekhar Azad claimed that the CAA and NRC protests were trying to turn the violence of the sitting leaders into violence so as to divert people's attention.