Students association gather at Freedom park following the resignation of India’s Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over alleged NEET examination irregularities.
The participants reiterated that the 2021 police order restricting protests must be revoked immediately.
Why should everyone, irrespective of whether they are staying in Electronics City or near Devanahalli, travel several kilometres through traffic to reach Freedom Park to protest?” the group said. Sujatha, representing Sadhana Mahila Sangha, a non-profit working for the rights, safety and health of sex workers in Karnataka, said that the restriction to Freedom Park affects sex workers too: “Usually, when our sex workers are unlawfully detained in a police station, beaten or threatened by police, our protest outside the police station helps mount pressure to ensure their release. Police detain protesters near Town Hall Police detain protesters near Town Hall The decision was made at a round-table discussion convened by Campaign for the Right to Protest at Gandhi Bhavan. “If the city can be divided into five zones and the police commissionerates be broken into smaller divisions for administrative convenience, why shouldn’t there be more places to protest? That is why we too demand that this restriction must be revoked. ”
On Aug 1, 2022, HC disposed of the case. The court also directed that such activities be organised without adversely affecting traffic, particularly during rush hours, and that action be taken wherever traffic was disrupted.