UN Chief Antonio Guterres watching situation of violence in Delhi.

New Delhi, Feb 26 (HS): The United Nations (UN) chief Antonio Guterres is having a close eye on the ongoing situation of unrest in Delhi’s North-East district.

While addressing the media, he said that the demonstrators should be allowed to demonstrate peacefully and security forces should show restraint.

“I think it’s very important that demonstrators be allowed to demonstrate peacefully and that security forces show restraint. This is the SG’s constant position,” Secretary-General Guterres’ spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Tuesday.

Communal violence over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in North-East Delhi has killed at least 20 people, including a police constable and left more than 200 people injured till Wednesday as police struggled to check the rioters who ran amok on streets, burning and looting shops, pelting stones and thrashing people.