New Delhi: The petition for farmer groups for permission to protest against three new agricultural laws in Jantar Mantar near the parliament triggered a Tamera Friday kick from the Supreme Court.
It asked the applicant about justification to continue protests by blocking the highway that had strangled the capital when Oufit had challenged the law in court.
Kisan mahapachayat based in Jaipur, through Ajay Choudhary’s advocate, told the justice bench am Khanwilkar and CT Ravikumar that the organization was one of the applicants who had challenged legal validity, which was taken for one and a half years and half the apex court in January to bring farmers to the negotiation table.
Chaudhary said Delhi police repeatedly refused permission to Mahapachayat to protest with 200 members / protesters in Jantar Mantar despite relieving Covid norms.
“You have strangled the entire city by blocking the highway at an important entry point from various countries.
Now you want to enter the city to protest,” said the judge.
“The problem has been challenged in front of the Supreme Court.
After you decide to come to court, you cannot protest on the streets.
Do you protest the justice system?” Residents have the right to move freely.
Have you ever thought of their rights violated because of the road blockade? Do residents around the point of protests happy with the farmers blocking the highway? Their business has stopped.
You (farmers) even block the movement of vehicles that bring defense personnel and stop them according to the report of the newspaper.
You block the train movement.
You block the highway and then come and say the protest is peaceful, “Bench said.
When Chaudhary said the highway was blocked by the police and not farmers, the bench asked Mahapachayat, who moved the court through the President of Ram Pal JAT, to submit a written statement that the Applicant was not part From the road blockade protest organized by various farmer organizations at three border points on the highway connecting Delhi with Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.
Judge KhanwiLkar and Ravikumar said, “You (Mahapachayat) cannot isolate themselves from the ongoing protest.
You cannot protest when you have moved the Supreme Court.
If you want to continue with your protest, don’t come to court.
“While posting the petition to hear on October 8, the bench asked the organization to submit Affidavit clarify whether it participated in the protest that was ongoing by farmers.
It also asked Chaudhary to serve the petition at the Venugopal KK Attorney General.
On Thursday, another bench headed on Thursday By Justice Sanjay K Kaul has told the government that the law on this issue (protesters blocking public roads) has been resolved in the case of Shaheen Bagh and it is for executives to implement it.
In the case of anti-CAA Shaheen Bagh protest, SC said that no Protesters are allowed to block public lines or highways without time limits without the rights of citizens to move freely.
SC on October 7, 2020 rules that “We did not hesitate to conclude that work like public things, both in questionable locations or elsewhere for protests are not acceptable and a Dministration must take action to maintain a clear area of ​​encroachment or barrier “.
“While appreciating the existence of rights to peaceful protests with laws, we must make it clear that the public and public spaces cannot be occupied in such a way and it is too unlimited.
Democracy and dissent, but the demonstration that expressed the dissent must be in a place Just appointed that a number of non-determination people can gather every time they choose to protest, “he said.