Friday saw the first of several demonstrations planned by anti-CAA fronts in the new year, but again without police permission. Mumbai police served protesters notice and denied them permission for the protest. Demonstrators have called out the state government's doublespeak for opposing the CAA and NRC in public but denying police permissions for protests.

Around 300 people — with a majority of them being from the LGBTQ community — ended up demonstrating at a pavement at Shivaji Park, instead of Chaityabhoomi as per the original plan. The recently formed anti-CAA (Citizenship (Amendment) Act) platform, Hum Bharat Ke Log, had planned the January 3 protest on the occasion of Savitribai Phule's birth anniversary. A notice under Section 149 (Police to prevent cognisable offences) of the Code Of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), which read, "onerous conditions including that the applicant will be liable for any anti-national, communal or unlawful content" in response to the application for police permission was served to the organisers.