Can't repeatedly ask anti-CAA protesters at Shaheen Bagh to not block roads: SC
New Delhi/IBNS: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it cannot keep telling that protesters of Shaheen Bagh in Delhi have right to protest over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act but cannot block roads, media reports said.
The apex court said it is tired of sending mediators for holding talks with the protesters so that they can convince them to shift their agitation to some other places instead of blocking the Shaheen Bagh road in the national capital.
A bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and K M Joseph said that they cannot repeatedly ask the anti-CAA protesters that they have the right to protest but not block roads.
The SC's remarks came as advocate Shashank Deo Sudhi, appearing for BJP leader Nand Kishore Gark, sought interim order for the removal of the protesters.
The apex court observed that it thought of finding some out-of-the-box solution for the issue and hence sent the mediators but how far they succeeded in questionable.
The Supreme Court on Feb 17 appointed the two senior advocates to talk to the protesters and convince them to shift their agitation to some other places instead of blocking the Shaheen Bagh road in the national capital.
"We are not saying that people don’t have the right to raise their concerns. The question is where to protest? Because if this continues on the roads today for this legislation, tomorrow it could be done for another legislation," the top court had said.
The CAA aims to grant citizenship to Hindu, Sikh, Christian, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi but not Muslim refugees who came to India from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh to India before 2015.
Hundreds of women and men are camped for over two months to protest against the CAA.
Meanwhile, 27 people died and 189 have so far been injured in violent clashes taking place since the last 48 hours in northeast Delhi.
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