Citizen Amendment Act

A single-judge bench of Allahabad High Court while hearing a Criminal Misc Anticipatory Bail Application filed by Advocate Wajid alias Wajid Khan and another granted Anticipatory Bail to two advocates, accused of the Prevention of Damaging to Public Property and assaulting public servants during CAA-NRC Protests in 2019.

The 25-year-old was arrested on May 17 by the crime branch of Delhi Police in the Jamia rioting case. During the anti-CAA (Citizen Amendment Act) protests, violence broke out in New Friends Colony on December 15, 2019.