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Up to date: Aug 21, 2026 09:13 IST
New Delhi [India], August 21 (ANI): Safety has been considerably stepped up at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on Friday as people started arriving for a proposed protest towards caste-based reservation, regardless of the Delhi Police formally denying permission for the gathering.
Following a public enchantment calling upon these opposing the reservation system to achieve the location at 10:00 AM, small teams of individuals began congregating within the space, prompting a swift response from the police.
The Delhi Police had explicitly clarified on Thursday that permission for the deliberate protest had not been granted.
Police have put up barricades at Jantar Mantar and deployed a lot of personnel in view of the proposed gathering. Aside from Delhi Police personnel, paramilitary forces have additionally been deployed on the web site.
Earlier on Thursday, Delhi Police clarified that no permission has been granted for any protest on the difficulty of reservation reforms at Jantar Mantar on August 21, calling movies circulating on social media claiming in any other case “false and deceptive”.
In an announcement, Delhi Police stated, “Numerous movies are circulating concerning the alleged grant of permission for a protest, on the difficulty of reservation reforms, at Jantar Mantar on 21 August, which is fake and deceptive.”
The police clarified that no permission has been granted to anybody to carry a protest at Jantar Mantar on August 21.
“It’s additional clarified that prohibitory orders beneath Part 163 of the BNSS (erstwhile Part 144 CrPC) are already in power within the New Delhi District,” Delhi Police stated.
The police suggested individuals to not amplify, ahead, depend on or flow into unverified info concerning the alleged protest permission.
Accordingly, protest marches, processions, demonstrations and assemblies of 5 or extra individuals are strictly prohibited.
Authorized motion could also be initiated towards people discovered creating or disseminating pretend information.
The clarification got here after an organisation’s official Instagram web page, which has 5.6 million followers, shared a poster on Thursday asserting a “peaceable protest” at Jantar Mantar and urging individuals to hitch the gathering at 2 pm on August 21.
The assertion got here after the “Reservation Hatao Andolan“, an Instagram-based web page, known as for a protest at Jantar Mantar. The platform quickly gained traction by adopting the protest-mobilisation techniques of the Cockroach Janta Occasion (CJP) and has now known as for a bodily protest towards the reservation system on August 21. (ANI)
