UP cops arrest Dr Kafeel Khan from Mumbai airport for 'inflammatory' speech

Current Affairs
The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) has captured Dr Kafeel Khan from Mumbai air terminal for purportedly offering fiery expressions at AMU during fights the Citizenship Amendments Act (CAA) a month ago, authorities said.
Khan was captured on Wednesday night with help from Mumbai Police at the air terminal when he landed in the city to go to against CAA fights, an authority said.
"Authorities of the UP STF captured Dr Kafeel Khan for a situation which was enrolled at Civil Lines Police Station under segment 153 An (advancing animosity between various gatherings) of IPC. Our police group helped our UP partners on their solicitation," said an authority from Mumbai Police.
He asserted that Khan had offered incendiary expressions on December 12 a year ago during the dissent close Bab e Syed Gate outside the Aligarh Muslim University before in excess of 600 understudies.
The authority additionally affirmed that the Gorakhpur specialist had offered questionable remarks against Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
The FIR against Khan makes reference to that Swaraj India's leader Yogendra Yadav was likewise present during the discourse at AMU.
Following the capture for the situation, Khan was taken to the Sahar Police Station and in the wake of finishing customs he will be taken to UP on travel remand, the authority said.

Khan, a pediatrician, had gone to the spotlight in 2017 when a contention broke out after the demise of more than 60 kids in under seven days at the BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur, UP...Read More

CAA, NRC 'may affect status' of Muslims in India: US Congressional report

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The amended citizenship law along with a National Register of Citizens (NRC) being planned by the Narendra Modi government "may affect the status" of Muslim minority in India, a report by US Congressional Research Service (CRS) has said.
The December 18 report also said that for the first time in independent India's history, a religious criterion has been added to the country's naturalization process.
The CRS is an independent research wing of the US Congress which prepares reports periodically on issues of domestic and global importance for the lawmakers to take informed decision. These are not considered as official reports of the US Congress.
"In tandem with a National Register of Citizens (NRC) planned by the federal government, the CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) may affect the status of India's large Muslim minority of roughly 200 million," said the CRS in its first ever report on the amended Citizenship law.According to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, non-Muslim refugees who came to India till December 31, 2014, to escape religious persecution in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan will be given Indian citizenship.
Since both houses of Parliament approved amendments to the citizenship law earlier this month, protests - sometimes violent - have taken place across the country during which many protesters have died, especially in Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka.

"India's Citizenship Act of 1955 prohibited illegal immigrants from becoming citizens. Among numerous amendments to the act since 1955, none contained a religious aspect," the CRS said in its two-page report...Read More

German IIT-M student asked to leave India for taking part in CAA protest

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A German understudy at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras has said he was approached to leave India for challenging the new citizenship law that has started agitation the nation over.
"1933 to 1945; We Have Been There," said a notice Jacob Lindenthal, conveyed when he joined others in Chennai to challenge the Citizenship (Amendment) Act a week ago. Lindenthal had a semester left of his post-graduation in Physics and he was planned to leave India in May 2020
Lindenthal told news associations IIT-Madras and migration authorities requested that he leave Chennai on Monday. "There were evidently organization issues with my visa. In the wake of administering these out, I was broadly examined by the movement official concerning my political sentiments. At that point I was educated about the choice (requesting that he leave)," he was cited by News18.com as saying.
He included that he would counsel his legal counselor and choose the following strategy.
An understudies' body, ChintaBar, tweeted in solidarity with Lindenthal.
Refering to sources, The Indian Express detailed that an IIT official had sent a report about Lindenthal's support in the fights to "higher-ups." When reached by the paper, IIT authorities said they were ignorant of the "episode" including Lindenthal.

Reports said an outsider partaking in a political movement or dissent is an infringement of visa standards.....Read More

Citizenship Bill: Protesters defy curfew in Assam; Army conducts flag march

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The people defied curfew in Guwahati on Thursday morning to protest against the Citizen (Amendment) Bill as the situation remained tense throughout Assam, with the Army conducting flag march in the city.
Guwahati, the epicentre of anti-CAB protests, was placed under indefinite curfew last night while the Army was called in at four places and Assam Rifles personnel were deployed in Tripura on Wednesday as the two northeastern states plunged into chaos over the hugely emotive Citizenship (Amendment) Bill or CAB.
All Assam Student's Union has called for a protest at 11 am in Guwahati.
Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti appealed to the people to come out on the road for peaceful protest.The people were on the road in the night despite curfew.
Army conducted a flag march in the city on Thursday morning. Vehicles were stranded in various cities of Assam due to heavy blockade. Half-a dozen vehicles were burnt. The houses of BJP and AGP leaders were attacked in various parts of the state."Curfew is on till further orders, We are monitoring the situation very closely. So far the situation is under control,' Mukesh Agrawal told PTI.An RSS official told PTI that the organisation's office in Dibrugarh, Sadya and Tezpur were attacked. The BJP office in Tezpur was also attacked.

Late in the night, curfew was also imposed in Dibrugarh for an indefinite period as protesters targeted the houses of Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and Union minister Rameswar Teli in the district.As tens of thousands of anti-CAB protesters descended on the streets of Assam on Wednesday, clashing with police and plunging the state into chaos of a magnitude unseen since the violent six-year movement by students that ended with the signing of the Assam accord, Guwahati was placed under curfew...Read More