It was reported that seven people including one police officer were killed and at least 150 injured in New Delhi on Monday when riots erupted between thousands of people demonstrating for and against India’s new citizenship law. According to the report, police used tear gas and smoke grenades to disperse the stone-throwing demonstrators. This is the deadliest riots in Indian capital since two months ago that the protests against the new citizenship law began. Schools and some metro stations in the city were closed on Tuesday following rumours of fresh protests. India’s new citizenship law grants citizenship to persecuted Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians who fled Muslim-majority Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan prior to 2015. Those against the law said that it would convert thousands of illegal immigrants into legal residents.
Source: Viewers Corner News.