The Delhi High Court will hear a Youth Congress plea on Friday.
It challenges Delhi Police’s refusal of a protest at Jantar Mantar.
The protest was against the Chief Election Commissioner.
The refusal came on October 1.
The court agreed to list it within 24 hours.
The plea was filed by advocate Roopesh Singh Bhadauria.
The Indian Youth Congress applied to Delhi Police on September 25 for a peaceful gathering of about 100 to 150 people.
It said it would accept lawful conditions on security, traffic management, discipline and public order.
Delhi Police communicated its rejection on October 1, the very day the demonstration was scheduled, according to Bar and Bench.
The plea argues that the refusal came too late despite repeated follow-ups with the police.
It argues that the police cannot turn a power to regulate a peaceful assembly into a power to prohibit it without an individualised and proportionate assessment.
It challenges what it calls a mechanical application of protest guidelines.
The plea invokes Articles 14, 19(1)(a) and 19(1)(b) of the Constitution, which cover equality, freedom of speech and the right to assemble peacefully.
The plea also relies on Supreme Court rulings that recognise the right to peaceful assembly.
Separately, a petitioner has asked the Supreme Court to examine the appointments of the Chief Election Commissioner and Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, according to India Legal.
The reports available on October 8 did not include a response from Delhi Police to the plea.
On October 6, INDIA bloc MPs marched towards the Election Commission demanding the Chief Election Commissioner’s resignation.
The Delhi High Court agreed on Thursday, October 8, 2026, to hear a plea by the Indian Youth Congress against a Delhi Police order denying permission for a protest at Jantar Mantar.
The protest was planned against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls.
Jantar Mantar, New Delhi (file image), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
