Demonstrators march on Shaheen Bagh demanding removal of anti-CAA protestors | Photo Credit: ANI

New Delhi: On the day when the sit-in protest at Shaheen Bagh completed 50 days, a group of people marched to Shaheen Bagh demanding that anti-CAA dissenters vacate the roads immediately. The police mobilised in huge numbers to prevent any untoward incident from occurring.

The cops also tried to ensure that protesters marching to the protest site of anti-CAA stir at Shaheen Bagh do not raise any communal slogans. They demanded that Shaheen Bagh blockade be removed as they faced problems in commuting. The blockade, they argued, hampered their daily life and demanded that the sit-in protest at Shaheen Bagh is stopped immediately.

The demonstrators gathered in a huge number from Faridabad, Noida and Delhi. They demanded that protesters sitting there on a dharna for almost 50 days vacate the stretch and barricades be removed from the road linking Noida to Kalindi Kunj.

Senior officers, including Joint Commissioner of Police (Southern Range) Devesh Srivastava and Deputy Commissioner of Police (Southeast) Chinmoy Biswal, are at the spot monitoring the situation to ensure no untoward incident takes place.

The mob at Shaheen Bagh protest site gathered a day after a shooter who identified himself as Kapil Gujjar, a resident of East Delhi's Dallupura, fired aerial shots at the protest site in Shaheen Bagh.

The gunman who was quickly arrested by the Delhi Police said “iss desh mein kisi ki nahi chalegi sirf Hinduo ki chalegi (In this country only Hindu voice and no other voice shall be heard)” when asked what was his motive behind firing at the protest site.

Delhi DCP Chinmay Biswal told news agency ANI that the man had resorted to aerial firing. Police immediately overpowered and caught him, he added.