{"id":444192,"date":"2021-10-22T09:21:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T03:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=444192"},"modified":"2021-10-22T10:23:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T04:53:20","slug":"protests-ok-even-on-matters-before-court-but-roads-cant-be-blocked-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/protests-ok-even-on-matters-before-court-but-roads-cant-be-blocked-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests OK even on matters before court, but roads can\u2019t be blocked: Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Thursday observed that it was not against people\u2019s right to protest even on matters that are sub judice, but made it clear that such protesters cannot block public roads indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately some solution has to be found. We are not against the right to protest even when legal challenge is pending. (But) roads cannot be blocked like this,\u201d Justice S K Kaul, heading a two-judge bench also comprising Justice M M Sundresh, said.<\/p>\n<p>The bench was hearing a plea by Noida resident Monicca Agarwaal who highlighted problems faced by commuters on account of the ongoing protests against the farm laws, and sought the protesters\u2019 removal from the Delhi border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Thursday observed that it was not against people\u2019s right to protest even on matters that are sub judice, but made it clear that such protesters cannot block public roads indefinitely. \u201cUltimately some solution has to be found. We are not against the right to protest even when legal challenge is pending. (But) roads cannot be blocked like this,\u201d Justice S K Kaul, heading a two-judge bench also comprising Justice M M Sundresh, said. The bench was hearing a plea by Noida resident Monicca Agarwaal who highlighted problems faced by commuters on account of the ongoing protests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}