Can four-month old child go for protest? Supreme Court over infant's death at Shaheen Bagh

Coming down heavily upon the lawyers who was representing the mothers of children sitting in protest, the Supreme Court asked, "Can a four-month-old child go for the protest?"

Mohammed Jahan, 4, had died during the uninterrupted anti-CAA protests at Shaheen Bagh on Jan 30.

A 12-year old bravery award winner named Zen Sadavarte last week wrote a letter to CJI Bobde seeking a directive against the participation of kids in anti-CAA agitations.

The Class 7 student in the letter wrote the incident was a violation of the deceased child's right to life guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution.

Zen, who had received the award in 2019 for guiding 17 people to safety when a fire broke out at Parel’s Crystal Tower in Mumbai, further said the inclusion of children and infants in the protests amounts to "torture" and "cruelty".

Hundreds of Muslim women and men are camped for more than a month in Delhi's Shaheen Bagh, blocking roads, to protest against the contentious CAA which aims to grant citizenship to Hindu, Sikh, Christian, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi but not Muslim refugees who came to Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh before 2015.

The Supreme Court on Monday also issued a notice to both the government and Delhi Police and noted that there can't be any indefinite protests on a public road.

"The protests have gone on for a long time. There can't be an indefinite period of protests in a common area. It might be in an area identified," said the Supreme Court as reported by NDTV.