NEW DELHI – A senior police officer in India’s Uttar Pradesh state has beencaught on camera telling residents protesting the country’s new citizenshiplaw to “go to Pakistan”, *Indian Expresslink*reportedon Saturday.
The video shared on Twitter was shot in the Lisari Gate neighbourhood ofUP’s Meerut city on December 20, when five Muslim men died inclashes between protesters and police.
India has been convulsed by the broadest unrest in at least seven yearsafter Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government broughtin the Citizenship Amendment Act, which many see as discriminatory againstMuslims, who make up 14 per cent of the population.
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The law, which offers fast-track citizenship to non-Muslim nationals fromthree neighbouring countries, is the latest policy instituted by Modi’sgovernment that critics accuse of marginalising Muslims in theHindu-majority nation.
