INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
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Updated: Jan 07, 2020 09:50 IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Jan 7 (ANI): The Mumbai Police on Tuesday evicted those protesting here at the Gateway of India
against violence in the Jawaharlal Nehru University, and relocated them to Azad Maidan citing inconvenience to tourists and locals.Before
shifting the protestors, Sangramsingh Nishandar, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone 1) had appealed to protesters to relocate to Azad
Maidan due to disruption in traffic at the Gateway of India
"There is only one Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) toilet at the Gateway of India, Azad Maidan has all facilities
We have no objection against your slogans, posters and placards or anything
There were even posters of free Kashmir," the DCP said while appealing students and others to shift their protest to Azad Maidan
"There are tourists coming here
Thousands of people going to hospitals and locals going to their offices using this route
There are several other andolans parallelly going on
Public peace was disturbed
Protestors also took out a march, which is against the court's order
Nothing was being followed for the two days
As rules were not followed, we sincerely appeal to you to relocate yourself
We have nothing against the peaceful assembly but I am declaring this assembly is unlawful," he added
After relocating the protestors forcefully by putting them into buses, Nishandar said: "The roads were getting blocked and common Mumbaikar
and tourists were facing problems
We had appealed to protesters many times
We have now relocated them to Azad Maidan."The protestors while being evicted raised slogans of "Inqilab Zindabad" and "Mumbai Police
Murdabad".Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap and lyricist Vishal Dadlani had joined the protest being organised by students at the Gateway of India
last night.While Kashyap had said that he was there at the protest site to show his solidarity with the students and blamed the government
for the attacks in JNU campus, Dadlani had stated that he was there in support of a secular India
The students and activists had gathered here on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday, soon after the reports of violence in JNU became
public.Placards with "We stand with JNU", "Stop attacks on students" written on them were also seen at the Gateway of India.Politicians,
cutting across party lines, had condemned the attack on students which had taken place in JNU on Sunday
They had urged the administration to take nab the culprits and take strict action against those found guilty.More than 30 students were
taken to the AIIMS Trauma Centre after a masked mob entered the JNU on Sunday and attacked them and professors with sticks and rods
