AGENCIES / ALIGARH
Clashes broke out between Anti-CAA protesters and police at the old city area in Aligarh, following incidents of arson and stone-pelting late Sunday afternoon.
The police had fired teargas shells to disperse the crowd indulging in stone pelting at security personnel in upper Kot area of the Kotwali police station, said police sources.
There were reports of injuries to some people but the exact number of those injured in clashes is yet to ascertained, they said.
Reports of brick-batting, arson were still coming in from a spot where some women protestors were holding a dharna since Saturday on the Mohamed Ali Road leading to the Kotwali police station with police trying to evict the protesters from there, they said.
The clashes broke out shortly after a Bhim Army-led march by hundreds of anti-CAA protesters heading to the district collectorate earlier was stopped midway by police and Rapid Action Force jawans.
Stopped by police, the protesters, however, had headed towards the Eidgah area in the city where another group of anti-CAA women protestors had been holding an indefinite dharna for the past three weeks.