{"id":300711,"date":"2018-07-23T08:58:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T08:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300711"},"modified":"2018-07-23T08:58:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T08:58:48","slug":"there-cannot-be-complete-ban-on-holding-protests-at-jantar-mantar-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/there-cannot-be-complete-ban-on-holding-protests-at-jantar-mantar-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"There cannot be complete ban on holding protests at Jantar Mantar: Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-299685 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Supreme-Court-2-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Supreme-Court-2-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Supreme-Court-2.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/>The Supreme Court on\u00a0\u00a0July 23 said there cannot be any &#8220;blanket&#8221; ban on holding protests and sit-ins at Jantar Mantar and Boat Club&#8221;, and also asked the Centre to frame guidelines for granting permissions to protesters at Jantar Mantar and Boat Club in New Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThere cannot be a complete ban on holding protests at places like Jantar Mantar and Boat Club (near India Gate),\u201d the SC bench said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A division bench of Supreme Court, headed by Justice AK Sikri and justice Ashok Bhushan passed the order and said that there was a need to strike a balance between conflicting rights such as the right to protest and right of citizens to live peacefully.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The SC bench also noted that as it is there was need for police permission for holding protests or demonstrations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Apex court was hearing pleas, including the one filed by Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sanghtan and the Indian Ex-Servicemen&#8217;s Movement, challenging the decision of the National Green Tribunal that banned all protests around Jantar Mantar area in October 2017 saying such activities violate environmental laws.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on\u00a0\u00a0July 23 said there cannot be any &#8220;blanket&#8221; ban on holding protests and sit-ins at Jantar Mantar and Boat Club&#8221;, and also asked the Centre to frame guidelines for granting permissions to protesters at Jantar Mantar and Boat Club in New Delhi. \u201cThere cannot be a complete ban on holding protests at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":299685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[3826,3827,2766,1427,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300712,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300711\/revisions\/300712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}