Recent HC orders upholding rights of people breath of fresh air: CPI(M)

The CPI(M) on Wednesday hailed two recent high court judgments which upheld the fundamental right of citizens to protest and said that they were a "breath of fresh air" in an atmosphere where the government has induced all institutions to "connive" against the public.

The latest editorial of the party's mouthpiece People's Democracy cited a judgment by the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court which had set aside an order by the additional district magistrate against allowing protests in Beed against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

"The judgment delivered by the division bench of justices Nalawade and Sewlikar of the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court is an object lesson on how the fundamental rights of citizens to protest can be exercised in a peaceful and lawful fashion. First of all, the court held that those protesting against the CAA cannot be called as traitors, anti-nationals only because they want to oppose one law," it added.

Referring to the Karnataka High ...