Police have detained hundreds of people in New Delhi and southern city of Bengaluru and shut down the internet in some places as protests over a new citizenship law entered a second week
Police said they had detained around 200 people in the city, where according to protest organizers thousands of people attended four protests held in the city on Thursday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has dug his heels in over the law that lays out a path for people from minority religions in neighboring Muslim countries — Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan — who had settled in India before 2015 to obtain Indian citizenship. "As per the directive received from the government, data services are stopped at a few locations," Vodafone Idea's customer care tweeted in response to a user's question about its network in Delhi.
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