Right to protest fundamental, can't call it terrorist act: Delhi HC

Grants bail to JNU student in anti-CAA protests case

Right to protest is a fundamental right and cannot be termed as a “terrorist act”, the Delhi High Court said on Tuesday, while granting bail to JNU student Devangana Kalita in a case related to the communal violence in northeast Delhi during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). 

A division bench said the court must be careful in employing the definitional words and phrases used in the anti terror law UAPA “in their absolute, literal sense or use them lightly in a manner that would trivialise the extremely heinous offence of ‘terrorist act’, without understanding how terrorism is different even