A report providing the insidious details of the anti CAA protests was released in Delhi’s Press Club highlighting the human rights violations in the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh during the protests.
The fact-finding team of the Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR) accused the police of excesses during the anti-CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) protests in Uttar Pradesh.
Titled, ‘The Struggle for Equal Citizenship in Uttar Pradesh and Its Costs: A Saga of Omnibus FIRs, Loot, Arrests, and Harassment of Muslim Minority,’ the report said that 23 innocent people were killed by police gunfire, which is the largest number of deaths in any state throughout the nationwide demonstrations against the ‘controversial’ CAA law.
The report also quoted several victim families, which alleged that state criminal justice machinery is working together not only to deny them justice but also to inflict revenge on people who protested against the discriminatory amendment to the citizenship law in December 2019.
“There is an ongoing concerted effort by all the state bodies to not just deny justice to the survivors and victims’ but continue to extract ‘revenge’ and completely erase the battles of survival of Muslims and of civil society at large, from public memory,” said the report, adding, Even now, no responsibility or penalty for the state government has been fixed.
The report further stated that after two years of the ghastly repression of the civil protest, there has been no attempt to either compensate the families of the dead or to the survivors who suffered the loss of limbs and property.
There has not been any significant attempt to initiate impartial investigations into police atrocities against the protesters while the harassment of the protestors continues, the report added.
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According to the report, based on verified information in the public domain and accessing legal documents, an estimated 350 First Information Reports (FIRs) were registered regarding these protests against around 5000 named individuals and over 100,000 unknown persons.
“The registration of FIRs against unnamed persons gives a free license to the state police to implicate any person in these cases and subject him/her to unnecessary harassment without any fault,” the report added.
Our findings also concluded that about 3,000 people (dominantly Muslim) were illegally arrested without any due process of law under fabricated charges, the report added.
“On the first call of all India protests against CAA and NRC on December 19 in the year 2019, the state administration intimidated around 3000 people with ‘caution’ notices to stop them from exercising their fundamental right to protest,” read the report.
The fact-finding team also revealed that on the same day around 3305 people were detained which rose to 5400 within two days and many were later implicated in the same FIRs as mentioned earlier.
Over 500 recovery notices for the damages to the public property have been arbitrarily issued, without due legal process, across ten districts for damages worth an estimated Rs.3.55 crores which the Supreme Court recently termed as illegal and unconstitutional, the report reads.
The report was prepared by Safoora Zargar, research scholar Jamia Millia Islamia, and Asif Iqbal Tanha who both were arrested during anti-CAA protests by Delhi Police. They along with Prof Apoorvanand, Nadeem Khan, Hartosh Singh Bal, Adv Mohammad Shoeb, Adv Najmus Saquib Khan, and Aiman Khan address the media.
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