“Public Places Can’t Be Occupied Indefinitely”: Top Court On Shaheen Bagh
Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh turned into the epicentre of protests towards the CAA.
New Delhi:
Public puts can’t be occupied indefinitely, the Very best Courtroom stated this morning, stressing that “dissent and democracy pass hand in hand”. The highest court docket made those observations whilst listening to a batch of petitions towards the anti-citizenship legislation protests that swept Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh previous this yr.
“We need to make it transparent that public puts can’t be occupied indefinitely whether or not in Shaheen Bagh (in Delhi) or in other places. Those kind of protests (like Shaheen Bagh) aren’t applicable and (the) government must act… they should stay such areas unfastened from obstruction,” the best court docket stated, including the “management can not look forward to orders from court docket to transparent” the protest websites.
“We recognize the appropriate to peacefully protest and it may be (held) at designated puts handiest,” the court docket stressed out.
