Relatives, friends and residents gather during the funeral of Mohammad Mudasir, 31, who died in the recent sectarian riots in India's capital over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's citizenship law, in New Delhi on Thursday — AFP NEW DELHI, Feb 27 (Agencies): At least 32 people have been killed in the deadliest violence to engulf India's capital New Delhi in decades as a heavy deployment of security forces brought an uneasy calm on Thursday, a police official said.
Meanwhile, Indian government has asked a Bangladeshi studying at Visva-Bharati to leave India for participating in "anti-government activities" after she posted on Facebook a few photographs of protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act at the university, The Telegraph reports.
Afsara Anika Meem, a first-year undergraduate student at the university's Kala Bhavan, had been trolled on social media after she had posted the anti-CAA protest pictures.
There are two orders mentioned in the letter that asks her to leave the country within 15 days of the receipt of the notice.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hit out Thursday against "massacres" of Muslims in India after communal riots in New Delhi left at least 33 dead.
"India right now has become a country where massacres are widespread. What massacres? Massacres of Muslims. By who? Hindus," Erdogan said during a speech in Ankara after violence broke out this week between mobs of Hindus and Muslims over a citizenship law.
The violence began over a disputed new citizenship law on Monday but led to clashes between Muslims and Hindus in which hundreds were injured. Many suffered gunshot wounds, while arson, looting and stone-throwing has also taken place.
"The death count is now at 32," Delhi police spokesman Anil Mittal said, adding the "entire area is peaceful now."
At the heart of the unrest is a citizenship law which makes it easier for non-Muslims from some neighboring Muslim-dominated countries to gain Indian citizenship.
Critics say the law is biased against Muslims and undermines India's secular constitution.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party has denied having any bias against India's 180 million Muslims, saying that law is required to help persecuted minorities.
New Delhi has been the epicenter for protests against the new law, with students and large sections of the Muslim community leading the protests.
As the wounded were brought to hospitals on Thursday, the focus shifted on the overnight transfer of Justice S. Muralidhar, a Delhi High Court judge who was hearing a petition into the riots and had criticized government and police inaction on Wednesday.
Law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the transfer was routine and had been recommended by the Supreme Court collegium earlier this month.
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