The Supreme Court has refused to reconsider its old verdict against the CAA protest in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh. On Saturday, Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Justice Anirudh Bose and Justice Krishna Murari said that the right to protest can never be anywhere and anywhere.
Demonstration started on 14 December 2019 against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in Shaheen Bagh, Delhi, which lasted more than 3 months. The demonstration ended on March 24 when the corona was locked down. (File photo)
The Supreme Court refused to reconsider its earlier verdict on the protest against the Civil Amendment Act (CAA) in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh. While dismissing the petition on Saturday, Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Justice Anirudh Bose and Justice Krishna Murari said that the right to protest can never be anywhere and anywhere.
The court said that Right to Protest does not mean that when and where it is desired, sit to perform. There may be some spontaneous opposition, but in case of prolonged dissatisfaction or protest, public space affecting the rights of others cannot be continuously occupied.
What did the petition say?
A reconsideration petition was pending since November 2020 on the Supreme Court’s decision on the Shaheen Bagh movement in October 2020. In such a petition, the petitioners said that since the petition against the peasant movement and our petition are the same, the court’s views on the validity and extent of the right to protest in public places cannot be different. The court should consider it. The comments made by the court in the Shaheen Bagh case raise doubts on the right of citizens to agitate.
Demonstration started on 14 December 2019 against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in Shaheen Bagh, Delhi, which lasted more than 3 months. On 17 February, the Supreme Court gave the responsibility to senior lawyers Sanjay Hegde and Sadhana Ramachandran to find a solution by talking to the protesters, but even after several rounds of discussion, the matter could not be reached. The demonstration was later called off on March 24 due to the lockdown due to Corona.