Activists opposed to the law said they were trying to keep up the momentum and were looking for ways to work around the police clampdown andDemonstrators gesture and shout slogans during a protest against a new citizenship law in New Delhi, India, December 24, 2019. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
"We have proof that an Islamic group with its headquarters in Delhi and its strongest base in the southern state in Kerala is behind the violence in the UP," said senior police officer Kalanidhi Naithani. The rights group said police had only used excessive force only against those protesting against the law, including many students.
In Uttar Pradesh's capital of Lucknow, Tabassum Raza, a 26-year-old Muslim woman, said she was beaten by police who stormed into her home.