Scale of protests over CAA show decline; SC to examine constitutional validity

Police and paramilitary personnel carried out a flag march in Delhi's north east area, even as the scale of protests over the Citizenship Amendment Act showed a decline across the country on Wednesday, and the Supreme Court decided to examine the constitutional validity of the contentious act but refused to stay its implementation.

The situation in Delhi's Seelampur and Jafrabad localities, where21 people, including 12 cops were injured during a protest against the act on Tuesday, remained under control, but authorities imposed prohibitory orders as a precautionary measure.

The police have arrested eight people so far in connection with the violence on Tuesday.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who has been at the forefront of opposing the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the new citizenship law, took out her third march in as many days after which she attacked Union Home Minister Amit Shah over violent protests across the country over the new law, saying"your job is not to set the country on fire, but to douse it."