Post this afternoon’s namaaz, thousands gathered at Delhi’s historic Jama Masjid to protest the Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens. Last night, news began circulating that radical Dalit rights leader Chandra Shekar Aazad ‘Ravvaan’, would be holding a protest at the 17th century-old Jama Masjid mosque. This morning, there were rumours that Azad had already been arrested before the protest. Suddenly around 11am, Aazad tweeted: “Don’t listen to news that I’ve been arrested. I'm reaching Jama Masjid.” True to his word, he reached the mosque. He came in a blue jacket while people were filing into the mosque for prayers. And then as people were leaving the mosque, around 1pm, Aazad emerged on the steps of the mosque, took off his jacket, held up a copy of the constitution and amid loud cheers, addressed the crowd. It was nearly impossible to hear him and impossible to capture it on video- several thousand had gathered around him. But the police were close enough. They nabbed him. Between the thronging crowds and the euphoria, Aazad escaped. An Indian Express reporter said that “He ran from house to house and jumped over terraces to avoid getting caught.”