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Anti-CAA protests: Allahabad High Court issues notice to Adityanath govt

Mumbai-based lawyer alleges police excesses citing New York Times report

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Virendra Singh Rawat Lucknow
Taking cognizance of a complaint filed by a Mumbai-based lawyer alleging that Uttar Pradesh had acted in an unconstitutional manner to deal with anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protesters, the Allahabad High Court yesterday issued notice to the Yogi Adityanath government.

Referring to news reports published in The Telegraph and the New York Times on December 29, 2019, and January 2, 2020, respectively, the lawyer, Ajay Kumar of Bombay High Court, had observed that the situation in UP was antithetical to the core constitutional values and as such the HC needed to intervene.

Kumar’s email to HC Chief Justice Govind Mathur also demanded