Application filed by Delhi police says that accused Ashwini Upadhayay, Convener, Unite India Movement sent an email & also Preet Singh , President , Save India Foundation submitted an application requesting the DCP, New Delhi District to allocate them a suitable place and provide appropriate security.
Hindu Raksha Dal chief Pinky Chaudhary has been denied anticipatory bail. Chaudhary and a few others had raised communally inflammatory statements against Muslims during an event organised at Jantar Mantar. The court said the slogans raised by the group reflected their undemocratic attitude.
It has become a regular front page feature in almost every newspaper—the photograph of some of the country’s top medal-winning wrestlers staging a protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi against BJP MP and Wrestling Federation of India president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh for sexual offenses. The matter has now reached the Supreme Court and the question of who wins the legal bout hangs in the balance.
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to examine the issue whether right to protest is an absolute right, in a plea filed by Kisan Mahapanchayat, seeking space for protesters at Jantar Mantar and listed the matter to be heard on October 21.