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Sr Adv Gopal Sankaranarayanan mentions plea concerning #DelhiProtests against CEC Gyanesh Kumar and ECI; CJI Kant says lawyers have right to participate in protest

Gopal S: This is with reference to the protests and that there is no S.163 order available at all in public domain. Sr Advs being dragged through streets. Most unseemly. It shouldn't have happened. The excesses the police is allowing...the hooligans attacking children. We hope the Court will tell the police to [...]

CJI: I don't want to say anything as of now...we will not permit Supreme Court to become...but every lawyer has right to participate in [protest]

Gopal S: They have hit children on head and proudly saying we have done this. And we are told to restrain ourselves...I am SHOCKED. Two more lawyers were detained in buses. At some point, the bench will come to the rescue of the Bar. The cops think they can get away with anything.

CJI: List tomorrow.