Roads can't be blocked indefinitely: Supreme Court on Shaheen Bagh protest
New Delhi/IBNS: Hearing a request to remove the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) protesters from Delhi's Shaheen Bagh, the Supreme Court on Monday said roads can't be blocked indefinitely, media reports said.
The top court issued a notice to both the government and Delhi Police and noted that there can't be any indefinite protests on a public road.
"The protests have gone on for a long time. There can't be an indefinite period of protests in a common area. It might be in an area identified," said the Supreme Court as reported by NDTV.
The hearing will resume on Feb 17.
Last week, the Supreme Court had refused to hear the case to create no influence on the Delhi assembly elections which were held on Feb 8.
Hundreds of Muslim women and men are camped for more than a month in Delhi's Shaheen Bagh, blocking roads, to protest against the contentious CAA which aims to grant citizenship to Hindu, Sikh, Christian, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi but not Muslim refugees who came to Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh before 2015.
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