Supreme Court special hearing: 4 petitions filed over CJP protest curbs, mass detentions in Delhi

Supreme Court special hearing live updates The Supreme Court is about to hear a contempt plea against the Centre Delhi Police and Delhi Metro Rail Corporation DMRC over alleged violations of its October 9 order on public transport restrictions during Saturday's protests in the national capital At least four petitions have been filed before the top court over the police action alleged illegal detentions and the closure of metro stations The contempt plea filed by advocate Shailendra Mani Tripathi names Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan Delhi Police Commissioner Anurag Kumar and DMRC chairperson D Thara as respondents It alleges that authorities defied the court's direction against a complete prohibition on metro and train services to Delhi Other petitions have raised concerns over the preventive detention of political leaders lawyers and members of the public alleged assaults on lawyers and mediapersons and what petitioners describe as excessive police action Menaka Guruswamy has challenged the use of preventive detention to stop peaceful protests while Manoj Kumar Jha has questioned mass detentions Stay tuned to this live blog for all the latest updates on the SC hearing to start soon