Anti-CAA protests: 317 arrested, over 70 cases registered in UP's Meerut for violence

Additional Director General (ADG) Prashant Kumar on Thursday said that 317 people have been booked and 79 cases registered in connection with violence that erupted in Meerut city of Uttar Pradesh during anti-CAA demonstrations.

"79 cases have been registered and 317 were arrested. 108 police personnel are injured in which 10 sustained firearm injuries. Ten administration officials and 7 people including some journalists also sustained injuries. Five people lost ir lives in violence," Kumar told media.

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Kumar added that administration is educating people about CAA and y are also keeping an eye on social media. He said that two men belonging to Popular Front of India's wing SDPI were arrested. One of m is state chief of organization.

Police are said to have seized objectionable literature from m. People from same organisation have been arrested earlier in Shamli. Similar literature was also recovered from ir office in Meerut. ADG Kumar said that y are investigating  organisation's role.

Protests have broken out across country against act which seeks to grant Indian citizenship to refugees from Hindu, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist and Parsi communities who faced religious persecution from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh, and came to India on or before December 31, 2014.

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498 arrested for damaging public property 

Uttar Pradesh police on Friday have identified a total of 498 people for creating havoc and damaging public property during anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests. police have issued a press te regarding same. government has also sent pay-up tices to all 498 people involved in violence in state.

In Luckw 82 people have been identified, 148 in Meerut, 26 in Sambhal, 79 in Rampur, 13 in Firozabad, 50 in Kanpur Nagar, 73 in Muzzafarnagar, 8 in Mau and 19 in Bulandshahr. Earlier, UP police had informed that as many as 879 people have been arrested while 5,000 were 'bound down' as a preventive measure in state in wake of violent protests. 

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(With inputs from ANI)