The Congress has decided to extend legal assistance to all those arrested by the police during protests against Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) in Uttar Pradesh.
This was decided in a meeting of the legal cell of UP Congress that was chaired by party’s national general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and senior lawyer Salman Khurshid in Lucknow on Monday.
Later, talking to media persons, Khurshid said that the party had decided to fight for the cause of youths and others who were implicated by the police in stringent cases.
“We have collected details and other evidences and will soon approach the Allahabad High Court to place our views on the PILs (public interest litigation) already filed in the court,” he said.
Claiming that the UP Police filed several FIRs naming unidentified people involved in violence, Khurshid said that it could not be ruled out that even now several people would be put in jail by putting their names in the place of unknown people.
The Congress leader said that the meeting also stressed that the court should ask the police to probe and then charge the people of their offence rather than doing vice versa.
Khurshid alleged that everywhere, people were holding peaceful protests against the CAA but it was the police which engaged criminals to vandalise government and private properties.
