New Delhi: Hearing a plea on the inconvenience brought on by the continued farmers’ protest, the Supreme Court on Friday (April 9) mentioned that public roads should not be blocked.
A bench comprising Justices SK Kaul and Hemant Gupta mentioned that “we are not concerned about how you deal with the protests, but public roads should not be blocked.”
The Supreme Court has issued a discover to the federal government of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh asking why the roads are closed for so lengthy.
The court docket was listening to a plea filed by a Noida resident named Monica Agarwal who sought that the passage between Noida and Delhi should not be obstructed.
Agarwal has claimed that her journey to Delhi was taking two hours as an alternative of the same old 20 minutes.
The bench mentioned that in earlier judgments the court docket had made it clear that roads should not be blocked.
The court docket additional mentioned that the challenge of farm legal guidelines would be determined judicially, politically or administratively however the public should be subjected to inconvenience.
“We are not concerned how you (government) resolve this issue, whether politically, administratively or legally. But we have said this before, roads should not be blocked. It cannot create continuing inconvenience,” ANI quoted the bench as saying.
“This is a single mother who has to face so many issues because of these blocked roads,” the Bench added.
The court docket posted the matter for additional listening to on April 19.
