498 people identified for damaging property during anti-CAA protests in UP

As many as 498 people have been identified in connection with the damage caused to public property during the recent protests in Lucknow, Meerut, Sambhal, Rampur, Muzaffarnagar, Firozabad, Kanpur Nagar, Mau and Bulandshahar, the Information and Communication Department of Uttar Pradesh informed.

Lucknow:The Uttar Pradesh government has identified 498 people in connection with the damage caused to public property during the recent protests in various towns across the state.

The Information and Communication Department of Uttar Pradesh today informed that the District Magistrates of Lucknow, Meerut, Sambhal, Rampur, Muzaffarnagar, Firozabad, Kanpur Nagar, Mau and Bulandshahar identified the people responsible for the damage, the report for which has been submitted to the government.

The statement from the Information and Communication Department

In Lucknow 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.

Meanwhile, the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has decided that a Special Investigation Team (SIT) will probe cases of violence during the recent protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in the state.

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The Director General of Police (DGP) O.P. Singh has ordered the SIT probe.

The DGP said that the SIT, in each district, will be headed by an officer of an Additional SP rank. The SIT will be headed by Additional SP (Crime) or Additional SP (City) of the district.

More than 1,100 people have been arrested and 5,558 kept in preventive detention following violence related to anti-CAA protests in the past one week.

The police has put the death toll in clashes across the state at 19.

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