The police on Tuesday, 1 December detained Shaheen Bagh activist Bilkis Dadi who had reached the Delhi-Haryana border in Singhu to join the farmers protesting the government’s farm laws.
Ahead of the detention, Bilkis Dadi had said that the government should listen to the demands of the farmers.
According to a report by The Wire, “No fewer than 20 members of police personnel were involved in escorting Bilkis from the site.”
The Wire quoted her son saying, “Police are escorting her back to the city, although it is unclear if they will be taken to a police station or back home.”
Bilkis ‘Dadi’ had made headlines last year when she along with other women residents of south Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh staged a sit-in against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Bills which grew into a massive movement against the legislation seen as anti-Muslim. She was also recognised by the American weekly Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of 2020 alongside Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bollywood actor Ayushman Khurrana.