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Two years of CAA: For many protestors, the fight has shifted from the streets to the courts -Aishwarya Iyer

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Most of the prominent faces of the December 2019 protests battle police cases.

These days, 24-year-old Sharjeel Usmani spends most of his time travelling from one Aligarh court to another for hazri, attendance. There are four cases against the Aligarh Muslim University student, all of them connected to protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act passed by Parliament on December 11, 2019.

As the law was passed, protests erupted across the country and swelled into what activists call the “CAA movement”. The main opposition to the Citizenship Amendment Act was rooted in the fact that it undermined the secular principles of the Constitution: for the first time, a law explicitly stated religious criteria for gaining Indian citizenship. It expedited citizenship for non-Muslim undocumented migrants from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. Together with the proposed National Register of Citizens, it was feared, the law paved the way to stripping Indian Muslims of citizenship.

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