New Delhi, Dec. 24 -- When Taliban took over in Afghanistan, they shot a Sikh businessman's brother dead with a dozen bullets; when some Muslim men got upset at Indian sports star Virat Kohli's stellar performance in a cricket match once, they raped and killed a girl of a Kohli family in Pakistan. The victims of religious persecution in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, now living as refugees in India, narrated agonizing stories like these and more on Tuesday, while pleading the protesters across India to not oppose Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) that grants them citizenship, identity and dignity.

The Act which came into effect on December 12, this year, grants citizenship to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian communit...