Delhi HC seeks permanent solution to UNHCR protest issue

The court on Wednesday was told by police that only three protestors are present there currently. The counsel representing the residents requested the court to pass an order to ensure such activity does not take place in the future.

Observing that even the three protesters cannot be permitted to sit there, the court said that the police had to come up with a solution. “Tomorrow something else may happen in the world and again this will happen. we have to maintain the law and order in our country or somebody else will come?” said the court.

The court was hearing a petition filed by the residents association seeking a permanent solution to the issue of the people, mainly foreigners, gathering outside the UNHCR office. It has been argued that a protest can take place only at designated sites in the national capital. In August, Afghan nationals had gathered outside the UNHCR office in large numbers.