Right to Protest

Recently, the Supreme Court of India had upheld the right to peaceful protest against the law but also cleared that public ways and public spaces cannot be occupied and that too indefinitely.

• In another stance, Supreme Court said farmers have a constitutional right to continue with their “absolutely perfect” protest as long as their dissent against the three controversial agricultural laws did not slip into violence.

Constitution on Right to Protest

• Article 19(1)(a): Freedom of Speech and Expression (From the legal angle, the Constitution of India, guarantees the right to peaceful protest, which is strongly protected under Article 19, though the ....