Delhi protests: Supreme Court to hear plea seeking contempt action against authorities today

Delhi protests: Supreme Court to hear plea seeking contempt action against authorities today It additionally asked the authorities to problem a traffic advisory intimating the public regarding the service availability.

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• 3 min read New Delhi Updated: Oct 11, 2026 05: 39 AM IST.
• After the SC order, the DMRC had revised its earlier decision and reduced the number of stations that would remain closed to 45.
• A bench of Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V.
• The plea challenges their detention from their residences and from the streets.

THE Supreme Court will hold a sitting on Sunday to hear petitions seeking initiation of contempt proceedings against authorities for detaining Opposition party leaders, cancelling train services and temporarily closing Delhi Metro stations after Saturday protests by the Cockroach Janta Party and other groups seeking Chief Election Commissioner (CEC Gyanesh Kumar's resignation.

For context, a bench of Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V. Mohana will hear the petitions.

One of the petitions by Senior Advocate and TMC Rajya Sabha MP Menaka Guruswamy questioned the preventive detention of Opposition leaders, including four former chief ministers, saying it amounted to suppression of the fundamental right to peaceful protest. The plea challenges their detention from their residences and from the streets. It additionally challenges the detention of other protesters moving towards Jantar Mantar.

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