Plea In SC Seeks Direction To Avoid Coercive Action Against Trivial Offences For Violation Of Lockdown [Read Application]

An Intervention Application has been filed in a bid to portray to the Supreme Court of India that thousands of arrests have been taking place for trivial offences, which is causing a burden on the police as well as the judicial system during the period of the national lockdown imposed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The IA has been filed in Writ Petition which prays for the quashing...