‘Don’t Insist, We’ve Passed The Order’: Delhi HC Refuses To Stop CJP’s Connaught Place Protest

Cockroach Janta Party has announced another protest and Tricolour waving event at Delhi's Connaught Place on October 16. | File photo

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The Delhi High Court, on Thursday, refused to restrain the CJP and its founder Abhijeet Dipke from holding a protest at Connaught Place's Central Park on October 16, even as it took on record the police's assurance that all possible steps would be taken to regulate and control the activity of the protesters.

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A bench of Acting Chief Justice Nitin Wasudeo Sambre and Justice Sanjay Sharma was hearing a plea by a Connaught Place vendor seeking a direction to the police to regulate the protest according to existing law laid down by the Supreme Court.

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The petitioner's senior counsel submitted that traders and vendors would be "on the streets" if they lost another weekend to closures due to protest in central Delhi during the festive season.

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Dipke on Wednesday called on "patriots" to gather at Central Park on October 16 with the national flag, alleging that CJP members Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka were "jailed for unfurling the tricolour".

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The call came on a day Das and Ranka were sent to five-day judicial custody and were lodged in Tihar…

Original source: https://www.timesnownews.com/delhi

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