A student. A food seller. A creative producer. A scientist. All they have in common is that they took part in the Citizenship Act protests ...
A student. A food seller. A creative producer. A scientist. All they have in common is that they took part in the Citizenship Act protests last winter. Months later, the Delhi Police called them in for questioning in its controversial riots case, which blames the communal violence that took place in India’s capital in February on a conspiracy by Citizenship Act protestors to overthrow the Narendra Modi government. Over 70 protestors have been interrogated in the case. Below is an account by one of them.
Read more about the case which has been described as a witchhunt against protestors here. Read more accounts of those who have been questioned in the case here.
It was, he said, no less than a cruel turn of fate. All that he was in his life was because of the food that he sold in his two hole-in-the-wall food stalls, separated by barely a few metres. One specialised in buff, the other sold only chicken.
Yet, it was the same food that had landed him in front of the Delhi Police’s Special Cell, forcing him to do something he is struggling to live with now.
When the Citizenship Act protests broke out in Delhi, he did not bother joining them. He was...
