Two days after a teenager shot a protester in the Indian capital, another firing has been reported at an all-women sit-in site in the city against a controversial new citizenship law.
Police said no protester was wounded after a man fired a gun at New Delhi's Shaheen Bagh, the epicentre of nationwide protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which critics say violates India's secular constitution and is anti-Muslim.
Witnesses told Al Jazeera the suspect shouted "Jai Shri Ram" (Hail Lord Ram, a Hindu deity) as he fired "two to three shots" in the Muslim-dominated area where hundreds of women have been protesting since mid-December.
Mobile videos shot after the arrest of the suspect, identified by the police as Kapil Gujjar, showed him shouting: "Only Hindus will prevail in this country. This country is ours."
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