AMN /
The Supreme Court today agreed to give an urgent hearing tomorrow to a plea seeking action against those involved in thrashing journalists, JNU students and teachers in the Patiala House court complex where a student union leader was to be produced.
The petition filed by N D Jaiprakash, an alumnus of JNU, who was hurt in the violence yesterday, sought action against the people involved in the violence and over “inaction” on the part of Delhi Police.
The petition, which was mentioned before a bench headed by Chief J T S Thakur by senior advocate Indira Jaising, sought a direction to Ministry of Home Affairs and Delhi Police to take all preventive action so that no such violence takes place either inside the court room or within the court complex.
Earlier today journalists carried out a big protest march from Press Club of India in New Delhi to Supreme Court.
The journalists were shouting slogans against the Modi Government and Delhi Police. The protesters also demanded Police Commissioner B S Bassi’s sacking due to alleged inaction by the security personnel at the Patiala House Courts yesterday when journalists, students and teachers of JNU where attacked by people wearing lawyers’ black robes.