The Delhi High Court on Friday declined to urgently hear a petition seeking preventive directions to the authorities in connection with a protest by satirical political campaign Cockroach Janta Party scheduled to be held on Saturday, Live Law reported.
The petition was filed by Delhi-based activist group Save India Foundation, which has demanded that the Union government, the police and the other authorities should be directed to take preventive and regulatory measures to ensure law and order during the protest.
The founder of the campaign, Abhijit Dipke, called for the protest to demand the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan in the wake of the cancellation of the undergraduate National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for medical college admissions following an alleged paper leak.
The Save India Foundation contended before the court that such a protest, if left unregulated, could hamper public safety, traffic and security in the national capital, Live Law reported.
The organisation alleged that some online content linked with the mobilisation features inflammatory messaging, warnings about disrupting law enforcement actions and calls for disrupting public infrastructure.
The case was mentioned on Friday before a vacation bench of Justices Saurabh Banerjee and Amit Sharma, Live Law reported. However, the bench declined to hear the petition urgently.
The Cockroach Janta Party describes itself as a “political front of the youth,...
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