New Delhi: All India Students’ Association (AISA) president Neha Bora told Delhi High Court Thursday that she was not involved in the Cockroach Janta Party’s Oct 16 protest call at Central Park in Connaught Place and had organised a separate gathering at Mandi House.
Her counsel also said that there was nothing wrong with seeking regime change in a democracy, when the police’s counsel pointed to Bora’s presence in a news conference where “regime change” was mentioned.
It has a facet in Article 21.”
It said the petitioner’s concern was that “I am already branded as a bad boy and I have been asked to say that I shall be a good boy. It is that stigma which a person has which has led to this proceeding. The high court, however, said it will pass the order on Friday.
Bora has contested a police notice asking her to execute a “peace” bond before a special executive magistrate. The verdict will be pronounced Friday, the judge said. There was apprehension of breach of public peace and tranquillity within the jurisdiction of the SEM’s court, according to the notice. The court asked the police if it can hold off on enforcing the SEM notice till the high court takes a call but the ASG said if the petitioner is ready to give an undertaking to the court that she will not breach peace, he was ready to give an undertaking.
Her submission was before Justice Subramonium Prasad who, after hearing Bora’s counsel and police for nearly three hours, reserved the order. She has sought quashing of this police notice and asked for a direction to the force not to take any coercive action against her. Her petition has pointed to factual incorrectness in the notice which has associated her with the Jantar Mantar protest, when Bora was present at a Mandi House protest. Additional solicitor-general (ASG) Chetan Sharma, who represented Delhi Police , drew the court’s attention to the press conference attended by Bora and others.
Bora has been asked to appear before the SEM Saturday.