Supreme Court Verdict on Right to Public Protest

The Supreme Court on 7th October 2020 verdict in Amit Sahni v Commissioner of Police & Others., held that public spaces cannot be occupied indefinitely for protesting or expressing dissent. The landmark judgment was passed on a batch of petitions seeking directions for removing protesters from a public road in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh.

  • The demonstration at Shaheen Bagh was the centre of the dissent against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, or CAA.
  • The protests began in December 2019 and ended only after the nationwide lockdown was announced following the coronavirus outbreak in March 2020.

Highlights of the Verdict

  • The three-judge division ....
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