Oder prohibiting assembly of five or more people in city withdrawn, SG informs SC, HC | India News

Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta informed this to a bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra. He also informed the Delhi High court that the prohibitory order now stands withdrawn.

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New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Thursday (October 3) informed the Supreme Court that section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (earlier section 144 of CrPC) prohibiting the assembly of five or more persons in the city from September 30 to October 5 has been withdrawn.

Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta informed this to a bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra.

Prohibitory order impacts city right now because of Dussehra, senior advocate told apex court seeking urgent hearing

Mehta told the bench this when senior advocate Menaka Guruswamy told the bench, seeking urgent listing of the matter, that the prohibitory order passed by the Delhi Police Commissioner impacts the city right now because of the Dussehra festival and Ram Leela can’t take place due to this order.

The CJI told Guruswamy that the Solicitor General says that “the order by the Commissioner of Police has been withdrawn.”

Prohibitory order has been withdrawn, SG Mehta also told High Court

Mehta on Thursday also informed a Delhi High Court bench comprising Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela that the prohibitory order prohibiting assembly of more than five persons and protests in various parts of the city has been withdrawn.

Mehta told this to the High Court bench, which was hearing petitions seeking the release of climate activist Sonam Wangchuk and his associates as well challenging the prohibitory order.

Wangchuk and his associates have been released from detention, SG Mehta told High Court

Mehta also told the High Court that Wangchuk and his associates have been released from detention.

“The (prohibitory) order which was passed on September 30 now stands withdrawn in view of changed circumstances as they exist now. So far as persons who were allegedly detained, it was not detention in that sense, but they are also out,” Mehta told the High Court bench.

As per the September 30 order issued from the Delhi Police headquarters, the Delhi Police Commissioner had instructed that section 163 of the BNSS be imposed in New Delhi, North and Central districts and jurisdictions of all police stations sharing borders with other states from September 30 to October 5.

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