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#SupremeCourt to hear Tamil Nadu govt's plea against division bench of high court directing state police to allow Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) route marches without conditions imposed by a single bench.
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#SupremeCourt to hear Tamil Nadu govt's plea against division bench of high court directing state police to allow Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) route marches without conditions imposed by a single bench.
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Sr Adv Mukul Rohatgi (for TN govt): Not everything can be banned, and not everything can be allowed...there cannot be a blanket mandamus on all route marches.
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Rohatgi takes court through chronology of events.
"There is no absolute right to hold a procession. It is subject to various restrictions in Part III of the Constitution. How can there be direction that marches can be held wherever desired? Some balance!"
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"There is no absolute right to hold a procession. It is subject to various restrictions in Part III of the Constitution. How can there be direction that marches can be held wherever desired? Some balance!"
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Rohatgi: Can this court say that RSS can hold processions wherever? Somewhere has to be indoors...
Sr Adv Mahesh Jethmalani (for RSS): Processions meant to make a public statement...not for the organisation itself. Right to peaceably assemble at stake here.
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Sr Adv Mahesh Jethmalani (for RSS): Processions meant to make a public statement...not for the organisation itself. Right to peaceably assemble at stake here.
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Jethmalani: Popular Front of India was the one creating law and order issues...with impunity...Either they can't control or don't want to control it...After PFI was banned by centre, these stopped. No complaints against RSS...
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Sr Adv Maneka Guruswamy (for RSS): At the heart of this issue is question of what is reasonable restriction & public order...We as a country pay some importance to Article 19 because this is a country that was imagined & conceived by those who marched.
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Guruswamy (for RSS): In this free country, 70 years on, can public order & reasonable restrictions be reduced to this sort of status report? (takes court through report)
...They say RSS processions can be permitted only in an enclosed ground...
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...They say RSS processions can be permitted only in an enclosed ground...
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Guruswamy (for RSS): Not the way in which right to peaceably assemble, to march, to occupy public space, can be curtailed...Constitution demands more, an application of mind that speaks to well-founded fear...not what they have cited.
Bench: Will consider.
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Bench: Will consider.
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