Roads Can?t be Blocked in the Name of Protest, Says Supreme Court, Again

The Supreme Court Friday observed the roads couldn’t be blocked in the name of protest. The court was addressing a PIL filed by a Noida resident.

The petitioner, Monica Agarwal, had submitted that the commuters from Noida-Delhi were facing a lot of problems because of the ongoing farmers’ protests.

Farmers from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh have been sitting at the border for more than four months protesting against the three progressive farm laws passed by the union government.

Although the numbers of the farmers at the border currently have gone down massively.

For more than three months, many roads at the border were closed and commuters had to face long traffic congestions.

The Supreme Court issued notices to Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. The matter will next be taken up on April 19.

In a similar case in February 2020, the Supreme Court had said the roads couldn’t be blocked indefinitely in the name of protest.

The matter was related to Shaheen Bagh protests where protestors had blocked the road for months.

The court had said the protestors had the right to protest but they can’t protest on the road.