Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath approved police commissioner system in two cities of Lucknow and Noida, few days after protests erupted in the State against the passage of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in 2019, says a new book authored by former State Director General of Police O.P Singh.
Mr. Singh, headed U.P. police from January 1, 2018- January 31, 2020. As many as 22 people were killed in U.P. after CAA was passed by the Parliament on December 9, 2019. Across the country, 83 persons were killed in protests against CAA and the National Register of Citizens (NRC).
The CAA allows citizenship to “undocumented” six non-Muslim communities from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh who entered India on or before December 31, 2014. There are apprehensions and fear that the Act, which is yet to be implemented, followed by a country-wide compilation of the NRC will benefit non-Muslims excluded from the citizens’ register, while excluded Muslims will have to prove their citizenship. Government had earlier informed the Parliament that “till now the Government has not taken any decision to prepare NRC at national level.”
