Anti-CAA protest: UP Police send notices to dead man, nonagenarians

Firozabad: Following the violence against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the death of four people in the western Uttar Pradesh city on December 20, the local police registered 35 cases and jailed 14.

Later, the police also issued notices to approximately 200 people asking them to prove that they would not disturb the peace in the city.

The recipients of the notices included men who are in their 90s and one man who had died 6 years ago at 94 years of age.

Fasahat Meer Khan, one of the recipients of the notice, is 93 years old and owns a college in the city. Whereas, Sufi Ansar Hussain, another recipient, is a caretaker of a local mosque and is suffering from pneumonia.

The notices issued to them orders them to apply for bail with the magistrate with a bond of Rs 10 lakhs.

The UP government has said that it was an error and will be rectified son.