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Karnataka High Court allows march, pulls up group for hoardings
The Karnataka High Court on Friday allowed Hindu Jagarana Vedike to hold a torchlight march in Mysuru on Independence Day eve, quashing police refusal. Justice Suraj Govindaraj ruled that citizens cannot be…
The Story in Brief
The Karnataka High Court on Friday allowed Hindu Jagarana Vedike to hold a torchlight march in Mysuru on Independence Day eve, quashing police refusal. Justice Suraj Govindaraj ruled that citizens cannot be stopped from celebrating Independence Day on mere apprehension of communal tension. The court limited the march to 100 persons and required them to walk in rows of five. On Thursday, the court had pulled up the group for putting up hoardings announcing the event before permission was granted, calling it presumptuous. The state had opposed the plea, citing the organisers' criminal antecedents and the sensitivity of the route.
The Indian Opinion
The police cited criminal antecedents and communal tension to block the march, but the court rightly noted that a chargesheet does not bar anyone from Independence Day celebrations. The group's hoardings before permission were indeed presumptuous, earning a judicial rebuke. The real test: will the 100-person march remain peaceful, as the organisers undertook?
Sources (3): barandbench.com, livelaw.in, livelaw.in (2)
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Updated: this story now draws on 3 sources.
