The Delhi High Court on Thursday agreed to hear on Friday a petition seeking a probe by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) into the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) students’ protest and its march to Parliament.
Lawyer Barun Sinha representing the petitioner, Satish Kumar Agarwal, former vice president of the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha, urged the court to list the petition for Friday.
Sinha stated that the “so-called student agitation” had made “the entire Delhi hostage” and that the blockage of roads in the national capital had led to the suffering of the citizens of Delhi.
The court agreed to list the petition for Friday.
In his petition, Sinha also sought a direction to the investigating agency to take over all First Information Reports (FIR) registered by the Delhi Police in connection with the incident and also direct the relevant authorities to identify all persons responsible for acts of violence, vandalism, obstruction of emergency services, damage to public and private property, and other crimes committed during public demonstrations and register FIRs against them.
The petition said that the so-called protest is not in essence a genuine protest by the students or over concerns related to the students, but appears to be part of a larger conspiracy allegedly hatched by anti-national and anti-foreign elements with the alleged intention of destabilizing the country by exploiting financial influence and monetary resources.
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“The circumstances surrounding the aforementioned protest indicate that, under the guise of democratic opposition and public demonstrations, some external forces and foreign interests may attempt to use their financial and other resources to influence internal affairs, destabilize the democratic framework, and create conditions of internal strife. Such actions appear to be intended to impede the progress of the nation, weaken democratic institutions, and create conditions that may lead to serious social and political unrest, including the possibility of civil discord,” the petition stated.
The court certainly agreed a day after it sought a response from Central and Delhi police on petitions demanding a probe by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) into alleged police excesses on protesting CJP students Jantar Mantar, saying the incident was not “isolated”.
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On July 20, the CJP organized a ‘Chalo Sansad’ rally after a hunger strike in Jantar Mantar that lasted for more than three weeks.
Tens of thousands of agitators marched to Parliament in central Delhi on Monday demanding the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over repeated leaks of papers and irregularities in examinations, after a 23-day hunger strike at Jantar Mantar.
