The Shaheen Bagh area in south Delhi, the epicentre of anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act protests in the country, was cleared by the Delhi Police on Tuesday, 24 March, amid the lockdown imposed in the national capital in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.

The security was tightened and the protest area sealed by the police, after a prohibitory order under Section 144 of the CrPC was promulgated in Delhi in light of coronavirus concerns.