INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
ANI |
Updated: Feb 04, 2020 15:03 IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 4 (ANI): Four-month-old Mohammed Jahaan, who use to accompany her mother to the Shaheen Bagh
demonstration, has died last week after developing severe cold and congestion and getting exposed to the winter chill at the protest
site.The infant breathed his last on the morning of January, 31.Speaking about the incident, infant's mother Nazia said, "I returned late
from the agitation and made beds for my three children
I slept after all three were sleeping but in the morning when I woke up I found that Jahaan was not responding
We took him to Alshifa Hospital where doctor declared him brought dead".Nazia has been regularly attending Shaheen Bagh protest since
December 18 and has two more children including 5-year-old girl Ayat and two-year-old Noor Nawaj.Nazia, however, says that she will continue
to attend the protest as it was for the country."My son had caught cold, there was no other health issue
We will still go to protest for our country
We do not have any documents, what will we do? We demand that Modi ji and Amit Shah ji should take back Citizenship (Amendment) Act and
National Register of Citizens (NRC)," said Nazia, the mother of Jahaan."We will continue to protest unless Centre rolls back CAA and NRC,"
she added.The deceased's parents, Mohammed Arif and Nazia, live in a tiny shanty made up of plastic sheets and clothes in Batla House area
of Delhi.Protests have been going on at Shaheen Bagh since December 15 last year against the Citizenship Amendment Act due to which Kalindi
Kunj road has been shut for traffic movement.The Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) grants citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis,
Buddhists and Christians fleeing religious persecution from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh and who came to India on or before December
