"Announcements were made in the locality since two-three days asking us to mobilise people to protest against the NRC. We were asked to gather on Tuesday," said a protestor speaking to India Today.
The Delhi Police has also named former Congress MLA Asif Khan as one of the accused in its FIR. Six people including four local politicians and the former Congress MLA have been named as suspects in the Delhi Police FIR.
Dismissing the pleas filed by lawyers of petitioners seeking suo motu action against police action, the Supreme Court asked the petitioners should be file a case in the respective HCs.
Last evening, the Delhi Police had to enter the Jamia Millia Islamia University to quell the bouts of violent acts accompanying the protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act.