Supreme Court agrees to hear plea against HC order removing protesters from Chandigarh-Mohali road

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today agreed to hear a plea challenging the Punjab and Haryana High Court order asking protesters to vacate the Chandigarh-Mohali road. In May this year, the Supreme Court, while hearing a separate petition, had stayed the High Court’s April 9 order.

A bench of Justices B R Gavai, K V Vishwanathan and N Koteswar Singh today sought response from the NGO which had filed the petition in this regard and clubbed all the petitions related to the issue.

The high court, in its April 9 order, had said that despite repeated opportunities in this regard, neither Punjab nor the Union Territory of Chandigarh had disposed of the grievances faced by the people of Chandigarh and Mohali.

The order was passed on a plea by an NGO which contended that locals and commuters were facing unnecessary inconvenience due to the protest on the Chandigarh-Mohali road, which has been going on since February 2023.

The protesters at the border of Chandigarh and Mohali have been demanding the release of Sikh prisoners.