In Sambhal, as in Rampur, the Uttar Pradesh police are reversing a famous Biblical saying: they are visiting the sins of the children upon their families. Only the children’s sins haven’t been proven yet and the families don’t have the means to serve their punishments.
On December 19, protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens broke out in the town of Sambhal in western Uttar Pradesh. The protesters torched a bus and two of them were subsequently killed. In its FIR, the Sambhal police admitted that it had fired, but only in self-defense.
