This photo has been doctored to include manipulated placards -- it shows an unrelated police protest in November 2019

The image was published in this Facebook post on December 20, 2019.

The image shows several uniformed police officers holding placards that read: “No NRC / No CAB”. 

Below is a screenshot of the misleading post: 

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NRC is an acronym for the National Register of Citizens, an official record of all Indian citizens which was implemented in India’s northeastern state of Assam. It recently came under scrutiny after almost two million people were excluded from the list released on August 31, 2019, which critics claimed was an attempt to marginalise the state's large minority of Muslims, as reported by AFP here on September 2, 2019. 

CAB is an acronym for the Citizenship Amendment Bill, now referred to as the Citizenship Amendment Act after India passed the bill on December 11, 2019. The new law granted citizenship to non-Muslim immigrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. It was labeled anti-Muslim by critics, and resulted in widespread violent protests across the country, as reported by AFP here on December 12, 2019.

The Hindi-language caption in the misleading Facebook post translates in English to: “Police personnel are also with us in saving the constitution”.

The same image was also shared here, here and here on Facebook with a similar claim.

The claim is false; the image has been doctored to include manipulated placards.

A reverse image search on Google found the original photo published here in a report by Chennai-based newspaper The Hindu on November 5, 2019.

Below is a screenshot of the photo published by The Hindu:

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The photo caption reads: “Delhi Police officers holding posters during a protest demonstration against the recent attack by lawyers outside the Police Headquarters, New Delhi on Tuesday.”

Some of the placards read: “We want equality in justice”; “Save the savers / We want equal justice”; “#save_police”. 

Below is a screenshot comparison of the image in the misleading Facebook post (L) and the photo published by The Hindu (R):

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The same protest was also covered by local Indian media, including here by English-language newspaper Hindustan Times and here by Indian English-language television channel NDTV.