‘No permission needed to hoist national flag’: Neha Bora tells Delhi HC
AISA president Neha Bora is challenging a Delhi police notice that requires her to sign a peace bond. She argues that the police are using preventive detention to suppress peaceful dissent and protest activities.
Why it matters
The case touches on the balance between public order and the constitutional right to protest in India.
NEW DELHI: All India Students' Association (AISA) president Neha Bora on Thursday told the Delhi high court that no permission was required to hoist the national flag, while challenging a police notice directing her to execute a bond to maintain peace.The Delhi police objected to the maintainability of Bora's petition challenging the notice, which asked her to execute a "peace" bond before a Special Executive Magistrate (SEM).Bora on Monday had moved the Delhi High Court challenging a police notice directing 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 the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.The notice, issued on October 17 under Section 126 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), directed Bora to appear before the magistrate on October 19 and explain why she should not execute a personal…
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