Bombay HC in a welcome judgement protecting the rights of anti-CAA protestors said:
“It is the dissent of people against the act made by the Government and the bureaucracy needs to be sensitive when it exercises powers given by law.
“It is the dissent of people against the act made by the Government and the bureaucracy needs to be sensitive when it exercises powers given by law.
Unfortunately, many laws which ought to have been scrapped after getting freedom are continued and the bureaucracy is exercising the powers given under those laws and now against the citizens of free India. The bureaucracy needs to keep in mind that when the citizens who believe—
that particular act is an attack on their rights which were achieved by freedom struggle and when it is against the provisions of constitution which people have given to themselves, they are bound to defend that right.
If they are not allowed to do so, the possibility of use of force is always there and the result will be violence, chaos, disorder and ultimately the danger to the unity of this country."
