Neha Bora moves HC against police notice, likely to seek urgent hearing
AISA president Neha Bora has challenged a Delhi police notice in the High Court that required her to execute a bond for 'keeping peace.' Bora argues the police action is a misuse of preventive powers intended to suppress peaceful dissent regarding electoral roll revisions.
Why it matters
The case highlights tensions between law enforcement's preventive detention powers and the constitutional right to peaceful protest in India.
New Delhi: All India Students’ Association (AISA) president Neha Bora Monday challenged before Delhi High Court a police mandate asking her to execute a bond before a special executive magistrate for “keeping peace.”Bora, who has been at the forefront of recent protests against alleged irregularities in Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, is likely to seek an urgent hearing in HC as the matter is yet to be listed. Her petition seeks quashing of the notice and directions to the police not to take any coercive action against her.The notice, issued on Oct 17 under section 126 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), asked her to appear before the magistrate on Oct 19 and show cause why she should not execute a personal bond of Rs 10,000 with one surety “for keeping peace for a period of enquiry.”As highlighted by TOI earlier, Section 126 empowers a a special…
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