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Party partaking in arbitration waives right to object validity(21.02.2002)

By participating in arbitration proceedings without protest, or objection before a court at the initial stage, a party is deemed to have waived its ri.....

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Damaging Public Property During Protest Impermissible: Delhi High Court(11.06.2018)

Delhi High Court has said that damaging or destroying public property and dumping garbage on roads as a mark of protest are "constitutionally impermis.....

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Allahabad HC Dismisses Plea to Quash Notices to Recover Public Loss from Anti-CAA Protesters(12.02.2020)

Allahabad High Court has dismissed a Petition challenging notices issued by the District Administration of State of Uttar Pradesh to recover damages f.....

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Supreme Court: No Jail/Custody of Minor Protestors(13.02.2020)

Supreme Court has said that no child in conflict with law can either be held in police custody or jailed, let alone be tortured, speaking up for the m.....

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Allahabad High Court Stays Recovery Notice to Man Accused of Damage to Public Property(14.02.2020)

Allahabad High Court has stayed the recovery notice issued to a Kanpur man accused of destroying public property during the anti- Citizenship Amendmen.....

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Rajasthan HC Grants Interim Protection to CAA Protesters from Arrests in FIR Alleging Violence(17.02.2020)

Rajasthan High Court has directed the Udaipur Police authorities to not take any "coercive action" against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protesters .....

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SC Dismisses Plea Seeking Clarification of Verdict Against Shaheen Bagh Protests(24.01.2022)

Supreme Court has dismissed a miscellaneous application filed seeking clarification of its judgement dated 7th October 2020 passed with regard to the .....

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SC: Right to Protest Comes with Restrictions(22.09.2020)

Supreme Court has said right to protest comes with restrictions and a balance has to be maintained between the right to protest and the right to free .....

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Bombay HC Directs State to Form Action Plan to Regulate Protest Marches(21.12.2016)

Bombay High Court has asked State Government to come up with a solution to regulate protest marches across city so that traffic is not affected and pe.....

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Supreme Court Notice on Arbitrary Police Curbs on Protests in Central Delhi(05.12.2017)

Supreme Court has issued notices on a petition challenging the powers of police to arbitrarily curb protests in the heart of Delhi by imposing Section.....

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Madras HC Quashes Sedition Case for Distributing Hand Bills in 2018 Anti-Sterlite Protest(26.07.2021)

Madras High Court has quashed criminal case against two persons booked under sedition for distributing hand bills against the Centre and State Governm.....

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Allahabad HC Protects 2 Anti-CAA Protesters from Arrest Till Filing of Police Report(17.11.2020)

Allahabad High Court has directed that two anti-CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019) protest accused shall not be arrested in the case till the submi.....

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Madras HC: Protest Using Animals Would Amount to Animal Cruelty(22.08.2022)

Madras High Court while dismissing a man's petition seeking permission to conduct a democratic protest using a buffalo, the Madras High Court held tha.....

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Kerala HC Stays Collector's Order for Closure of Liquor Shops(23.08.2022)

Kerala High Court has stayed operation of an order issued by the Thiruvananthapuram district collector directing closure of liquor shops in Vizhinjam .....

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Cal. HC: Public Can’t Be ‘Held Ransom’ by Protesters by Causing Rail Blockades(20.09.2023)

Calcutta High Court while observing that road and rail blockades are variants of ‘bandh’ and therefore they are illegal and impermissible has held tha.....

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Madras HC Directs TN Govt. To Ensure Proper Medical Treatment to Jallikattu Protesters(25.01.2017)

Madras High Court has given directions to Tamil Nadu Government to ensure proper treatment to those injured in incidents that occurred during pro-Jall.....

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Madras High Court: Victim and Interested Persons have Right to File Protest Petition(21.11.2019)

Madras High Court has ruled that a Petitioner being a victim is mandatorily entitled to notice before acceptance of final report to the Police and in .....

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Tripura High Court Rejects TMC's Plea to Hold 'Protest' Rally in State(23.09.2021)

Tripura High Court has dismissed a plea filed by the All India Trinamool Congress seeking permission to organize a protest rally despite State Governm.....

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Allahabad HC: Citizens Have Right to Protest Against Govt in Democracy W/O Committing Offence(02.09.2022)

Allahabad High Court while stating that in democracy under our Constitution, people have the right to protest against Government policies/action/inact.....

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Karnataka High Court: Consider Fresh Protest Requests in 3 Days(23.12.2019)

Karnataka High Court has told the State Government to consider within three days fresh applications — if any — filed by individuals or organizations t.....

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Kar. HC to State: Ensure Compliance of Order Restricting Protests & Processions to Freedom Park(02.08.2022)

Karnataka High Court has directed State government to ensure compliance of the Licensing and Regulation of Protests, Demonstrations and Protest Marche.....

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Calcutta HC Directs Health Secretary to Meet Protesting Medical Students and Junior Doctors(26.10.2021)

Calcutta High Court has directed the Health Secretary of the West Bengal government to meet protesting medical students and junior doctors of the R.G......

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Violent Protests Not a Basic Right: Supreme Court(19.03.2018)

Supreme Court has held that public demonstrations resorting to violence, including stone-throwing, are not protected by the fundamental right to free .....

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SC: Farmers Protests can Continue Without Impediment and Breach of Peace by Protestors and Police(18.12.2020)

Supreme Court has stated that the farmers' protest should be allowed to continue without impediment and without any breach of peace either by the prot.....

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Orissa HC Directs to Ensure Peaceful Protest, No Closure Of Shops, Disruption of Public Transport(12.11.2021)

Orissa High Court has directed the Congress party in the State to ensure that whatever protest is organized tomorrow i.e. on 12th November 2021 is pea.....

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NBDSA to TimesNow Navbharat: Take Down Episode Calling Haldwani Protesters 'Jihadi Gang'(06.11.2023)

News Broadcasting & Digital Standards Authority (NBDSA) has directed Times Now Navbharat to take down video calling the Haldwani protesters “Jihadi Ga.....

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P&H HC: Peaceful Protest is Not a Penal Offence Under Section 188 IPC(08.12.2023)

Punjab and Haryana High Court while quashing FIR against political leaders for violating order under Section 144 CrPC, has observed that merely bringi.....

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Supreme Court Upholds Madras HC Order on Right of Victim/ Interested Persons to File Protest Petition(04.02.2020)

Supreme Court has upheld the Madras High Court order whereby it has ruled that a Petitioner, being a victim, is mandatorily entitled to notice before .....

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Delhi HC Issues Notice on Plea Alleging Misreporting on Farmers' Protests on Republic Day(01.02.2021)

Delhi High Court has issued notice to and sought replies from AajTak, the Press Council of India and the Centre, on a petition filed by former MP Sukh.....

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Bombay HC Grants Transit Bail to Nikita Jacob in Greta Thunberg-Farmers Protest Tool Kit Case(18.02.2021)

Bombay High Court has granted three Weeks transit anticipatory bail to Mumbai-based Advocate Nikita Jacob, who is faced with a non-bailable warrant is.....

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SC Says, Spurt in Violent Protest on Religious and Caste Lines is “Unfortunate”(16.08.2016)

SC has expressed concern over sudden spurt in violent protest on the line of religion, language, caste divisions across the country and termed it "unf.....

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Delhi HC Issues Notice on Plea for NIA Probe into Funding of Anti-CAA Protests(28.02.2020)

Delhi High Court has issued notices in a plea asking for the National Investigation Agency to investigate the funding and sponsoring of protests again.....

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Supreme Court: Protests Cannot Infringe Rights of Others(02.03.2020)

Supreme Court has ruled that one’s right to protest could not infringe upon the rights of others as it upheld the Uttarakhand High Court verdict initi.....

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Karnataka HC: Fundamental Right of Holding Peaceful Protest is Basic Feature of Democracy(02.03.2020)

Karnataka High Court has observed that the fundamental right to hold peaceful protests is a basic feature of democracy while holding that the impositi.....

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Supreme Court Disposes Plea Against Road Blockade Due to Farmers Protests(12.01.2022)

Supreme Court has disposed of the writ petition filed by a Noida resident against the road blockade at Delhi-NCR border as part of the farmer protests.....

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Allahabad HC: Political Activists Have a Right to Protest Against Administration(09.12.2022)

Allahabad High Court while quashing criminal case filed against the sitting minister in the State government and BJP MLA, Dinesh Pratap Singh, has hel.....

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MP HC: Can’t Object to Jurisdiction After Participating in Arbitral Proceedings Without Protest(14.12.2022)

Madhya Pradesh High Court has held that a party which has participated in the arbitration proceedings without any protest or challenge as to the juris.....

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Supreme Court Dismisses Plea Seeking Clarification of Verdict Against Shaheen Bagh Protests(25.01.2022)

Supreme Court has dismissed a miscellaneous application filed seeking clarification of its judgement dated 7th October 2020 passed with regard to the .....

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Madras High Court: Act Against Those Organising Protests Without Permission(30.06.2017)

Madras High Court has asked police to take action against those organising “sudden” agitations without obtaining prior permission and causing inconven.....

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Kerala HC: Public Protests Cannot Hold Rule Of Law For Ransom And Negate Statutory Mandate(10.07.2017)

Kerala High Court has said that however justified an instance of protest is, it cannot hold the rule of law for ransom and negate the statutory mandat.....

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Allahabad HC Extends Date for Compliance of Order for Removal of Anti-CAA Protestors Posters(18.03.2020)

Allahabad High Court has pushed the date for the compliance of its order for the immediate removal of anti-Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 protesters'.....

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Madras High Court Restricts All Protests Until Pandemic Threat Abates(23.03.2020)

Madras High Court has ordered against the conduct of any protests/processions/ demonstrations, etc. till the threat of Covid-19 Pandemic abates.

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Madras HC Quashes FIR Against Protestors Assembled Before TASMAC Shop in 2017(31.01.2022)

Madras High Court has quashed a First Information Report registered against protesters who assembled before a TASMAC Shop in 2017 and demanded that it.....

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Kashmir Protests: Supreme Court Shocked Over Submission by J&K Lawyers’ Body(05.10.2017)

Supreme Court has expressed shock at an affidavit filed by Jammu and Kashmir's top lawyers' body listing the accession of Kashmir to India, “rigged” e.....

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Consumer Forum: Incidents Like Farmers’ Protest On Rail Tracks Not Sudden(12.10.2017)

Delhi Consumer Forum has held that incidents like farmers’ protest do not happen all of a sudden and Railways might have prior intimation of such prot.....

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Karnataka HC Directs State to Ensure No Protest Held in Bangalore City Except at Freedom Park(04.03.2022)

Karnataka High Court has directed the state government to forthwith ensure that no protest, meetings, processions, etc. are held in the city of Bengal.....

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SC Raps T.N., Karnataka over Allowing Cauvery Protests(16.09.2016)

SC has rapped Karnataka and Tamil Nadu Governments for allowing bandhs, agitations to challenge its order passed in public interest to share Cauvery w.....

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Guj. HC: Citizens Have Right to Know Rules Under Which They Are Denied Permission to Protests(18.01.2023)

Gujarat High Court while observing that citizens have the right to know the rules based on which the State Police grants or denies permission to hold .....

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Delhi Court Denies Bail to Man Who Carried Big Sword at Red Fort During Farmers Protest(05.04.2021)

Delhi Court has denied bail to one, Preet Pal Singh, a 37 year old man, who was allegedly seen in the photographs and videos carrying a big sword and .....

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Delhi HC Disposes of PIL Alleging CAA-NRC Protest Site Being Illegally Converted Into Memorial(24.02.2022)

Delhi High Court has disposed of a Public Interest Litigation alleging that the CAA-NRC protest site at city's Shaheen Bagh area is illegally being co.....

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SC: Case to Proceed as Pvt. Complaint if Cognizance of Additional Materials Taken With Protest Petiti(22.04.2024)

Supreme Court has held that a protest petition is to be treated as a private complaint under Section 200 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 if co.....

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Madras High Court Orders CBI Inquiry into Firing at Anti-Sterlite Protests(16.08.2018)

Madras High Court has ordered a time-bound Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry into the police firing that killed 13 people during the prote.....

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NHRC Issues Notice on Complaint of Farmers’ Protest Violating Covid-19 Norms(26.05.2021)

National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh governments on a complaint that farmers’ protests v.....

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Madras HC Orders TN Govt. to Close FIRs Against 2,500 Flood-Hit Protesters in Tuticorin(14.12.2015)

Madras HC has directed Tamil Nadu Govt. to close FIRs against about 2,500 people who staged demonstrations recently demanding that Tuticorin district .....

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Allahabad HC Quashes FIR Against Siddharth Varadarajan & Ismat Ara Over "The Wire" Report(26.05.2022)

Allahabad High Court has quashed the FIR registered against The Wire's founding editor Siddharth Varadarajan and reporter Ismat Ara over a report on t.....

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Madras HC Sets Aside Order Banning Protest on Babri Masjid Demolition Day(30.11.2016)

Madras High Court has set aside an order passed by a Single Judge of High Court, directing State Government not to give permission for demonstrations,.....

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Allahabad HC Asks Principal Secretary to File Report on Lawyer Protest(12.02.2016)

Allahabad HC, while taking note of violent protests by lawyers in Lucknow, has directed Principal Secretary (home) of State to submit his report on ma.....

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Calcutta HC Orders Police Action if Parents Continue Protests Outside School Premises(09.09.2020)

Calcutta High Court has observed that if parents do not desist from agitating before the school premises the Police may take appropriate action agains.....

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SC: Protests Not to Block Public Spaces, Only in Designated Places(07.10.2020)

Supreme Court has held that the Constitution of India, 1949 gives a right to dissent and protest but that such protests cannot occupy public spaces, i.....

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