New Delhi: Supreme court Said on Thursday that farmers have the right to protest but cannot block roads indefinitely.
A bench of Justice SK Kaul and Justice CT Ravikumar asked Sanyukta: Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of the Kisan Sangh, do they have the right to block the road.
SKM replied that road management can be done better by police and if police cannot manage then allow farmers to protest at Ram Leela Maidan or Jantar Mantar in the national capital.
During the hearing, SG Tushar Mehta referred to the Republic Day violence and said that the incident happened despite an undertaking by the farmers’ unions that there would be no violence during the tractor rally on January 26.
The Supreme Court has asked the SKM and other farmers’ unions to file their response within four weeks on a plea seeking removal of the protesting farmers from the streets.
The top court will now hear the matter on December 7.
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court questioned the justification for continuing farmers’ protests, including blocking national highways, when none of the three controversial agriculture laws are in force, as all have to be implemented in January. has been adjourned by the court for 18 months. An assurance to this effect from the Government.
Another bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice on 30 September Sanjay Kouli Citing its own decision, it said that protesters were barred from blocking public roads and said that farmers’ grievances could be addressed by Parliament or the judiciary, but they had to travel to and from Delhi to the neighbourhood. Cannot be seen to harass commuters through picketing on highways obstructing the Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.
A bench of Justice SK Kaul and Justice CT Ravikumar asked Sanyukta: Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of the Kisan Sangh, do they have the right to block the road.
SKM replied that road management can be done better by police and if police cannot manage then allow farmers to protest at Ram Leela Maidan or Jantar Mantar in the national capital.
During the hearing, SG Tushar Mehta referred to the Republic Day violence and said that the incident happened despite an undertaking by the farmers’ unions that there would be no violence during the tractor rally on January 26.
The Supreme Court has asked the SKM and other farmers’ unions to file their response within four weeks on a plea seeking removal of the protesting farmers from the streets.
The top court will now hear the matter on December 7.
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court questioned the justification for continuing farmers’ protests, including blocking national highways, when none of the three controversial agriculture laws are in force, as all have to be implemented in January. has been adjourned by the court for 18 months. An assurance to this effect from the Government.
Another bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice on 30 September Sanjay Kouli Citing its own decision, it said that protesters were barred from blocking public roads and said that farmers’ grievances could be addressed by Parliament or the judiciary, but they had to travel to and from Delhi to the neighbourhood. Cannot be seen to harass commuters through picketing on highways obstructing the Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.
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