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The arrested persons were identified as home guard Kashinath Bera and civic volunteer Pritam Bhattacharya of the Amta police station.

Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union president Aishe Ghosh said on Saturday that had society raised its voice against the scrapping of Article 370, "we would not have had to see this day".

The Supreme Court on Friday directed Uttar Pradesh administration to refund crores of rupees recovered from anti-CAA protestors in view of proceedings initiated in 2019. The move to seize properties of people involved in the December 2019 protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) comes after the Supreme Court pointed out last week that the state may have overreached

The Supreme Court directed the government to refund crores of rupees that was taken from the demonstrators for allegedly destroying public property.

The apex courts decision came in response to the Yogi Adityanath governments submission that it had withdrawn 274 recovery orders and actions against anti-CAA activists for damage to public and private property in 2019.

Even as Narendra Modi claimed his government stands with Muslim women, right-wing groups have heckled, harassed and humiliated Muslim women and denied them entry into educational institutions.

Incidentally, the battle over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) also played out in the Ahmedabad skies on Tuesday, as kites with pro- and anti-CAA slogans faced off against each other.

“Opposition resolution (against CAA) must have made Pakistan happy. CAA is a chance to expose barbaric treatment of minorities in Pakistan, Ravi Shankar Prasad said.

Around 16 lakh 58 thousand candidates are to write their UPTET paper this year. The UPTET written test was to be conducted in two shifts at around 1986 examination centres across the state.

Some protesters were carrying posters of B R Ambedkar, Kanshi Ram and Bhagat Singh.