The Supreme Court has fixed the new date to hear the Shaheen Bagh matter to March 23. The court was hearing pleas seeking removal of anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protesters from Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh area.
On Monday, the apex court had adjourned the hearing in the matter after the interlocutors appointed by it submitted their report in a sealed cover.
A division bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and also comprising of KM Joseph will take up the matter after going through the report.
The two amicus curiae had earlier submitted their report in a sealed cover to the apex court. “We will go through the report,” Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul had said.
The Supreme Court-appointed mediators – senior advocates Sanjay Hegde and Sadhana Ramachandran – had last week engaged with the anti-CAA protestors for shifting the venue from Shaheen Bagh.
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The top court had last week appointed senior advocates them along with former bureaucrat Wajahat Habibullah, as interlocutors to talk to the protestors and urge them to clear the road and protest at an alternate site.
Thousands of people, including a large number of Muslim women, have been staging a sit-in protest at Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh area since mid-December last year against the CAA and the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC).
A public interest litigation (PIL) in the matter, filed by Nand Kishore Garg and Amit Sahni through their lawyer Shashank Deo Sudhi, sought appropriate directions to the Centre and others concerned for removal of protestors from Shaheen Bagh near Kalindi Kunj.
The petition seeks appropriate direction to the respondents, including the Centre, for laying down “detailed, comprehensive and exhaustive guidelines relating to outright restrictions for holding protest/agitation” leading to obstruction of the public space.
(With inputs from ANI)