Police have booked 135 people protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act for sedition and arrested 20 of them in the city's Bilariaganj area.
In the FIR, only 35 people have been named and the rest are unidentified, police said. The FIR lists sedition among the charges.
The protesters accused the police of thrashing them. Police, however, said they used tear gas shells to tackle the protesters when they became unruly.
"The FIR has been registered against 35 named and over 100 unidentified persons involved in anti-CAA protests on Tuesday near Jauhar park in Bilariaganj area. Of them 20 have been arrested," Superintendent of Police, Triveni Singh, said