RSS route march: Supreme Court reserves order on Tamil Nadu Govt plea against Madras High Court order

The Supreme Court on Monday reserved an order on Tamil Nadu Governments appeal against the Madras High Court order directing state police to allow Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh RSS route marches in the stateA bench of justices V Ramasubramanian and Justice Pankaj Mithal reserved the order after hearing the submission made by both parties The court said that they will consider the pleaSenior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi appearing for the Tamil Nadu govt stressed the issues concerning law and order and said that some balance should be maintained He said that neither everything can be banned nor everything can be allowedTamil Nadu Government in its plea said that there is no absolute right to hold a procession which is subject to various restrictionsHow can there be the direction that marches can be held wherever desired the lawyer saidSenior Advocate Mahesh Jethmalani appearing for RSS said that the state is prohibiting the route marches saying that someone might come and attackHe further stressed that due to someone elses specious conduct fundamental rights cannot be regimented in this fashionThis has earlier passed off peacefully no complaints were there the lawyer saidSenior Advocate Maneka Guruswamy for RSS questioned the status report that was filed by Tamil Nadu Government in the matter and said that can public order and reasonable restrictions be reduced to this sort of status report She apprised the court of the status report which stated that RSS processions can be permitted only in an enclosed groundEarlier Tamil Nadu Government told the Supreme Court that they are not totally against the RSS route march but cant permit it in sensitive locationsAlso Read Nawazuddin Siddiqui files defamation suit in HC seeking Rs 100 cr damagesThe court was hearing the Tamil Nadu governments appeal against the Madras High Court order permitting RSS for its route march in the stateOn February 10 Madras High Court directed Tamil Nadu police to grant permission to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh RSS to take route marches in various districts across the state on public roads Recently the Tamil Nadu Government has challenged two orders of the Madras High Court dated 2292022 and 2112022Earlier Tamil Nadu Government had also said that they will have a dialogue with the RSS on proposed routes for the march as they are not totally opposed to it The state government had apprised the court that the government denied holding route marches in the sensitive areas which have faced PFI incidents and have border areas with disturbances The lawyer said that the government had had some intelligence reportsThe lawyer for Tamil Nadu Govt had stressed that they are not fully opposed to the procession but to they are opposing the manner in which it is proposed to be doneRSS lawyer replied that the ground the state government has mentioned is of the Popular Front of India PFI which was banned by the Central Govt and it is a threat to the organisationThey are not able to control terrorist organizations and that is why they want to ban the route march the lawyer saidTamil Nadu Government moved the top court against the Madras High Court order permitting the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh RSS to take out its route march in Tamil Nadu on rescheduled datesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever