AISA president Neha Bora refused to sign a police-mandated peace bond. Her stand renews debate over whether preventive proceedings can suppress democratic dissent.Newdelhi,Oct 24, 2026 14:56 ISTAll India Students' Association president Neha Bora on Saturday said she would not sign a peace bond before a special executive magistrate, a day after the Delhi High Court dismissed her challenge to a police notice, Press Trust of India reported.The notice directed Bora to furnish a personal bond of Rs 10,000 with one surety.
Questioning its rationale, she asked, "Whose peace am I being asked to keep?"Delhi Police issued the notice on October 17 under Section 126 of the BNSS, asking Bora to appear before a special executive magistrate on October 19 and explain why she should not execute the bond "for keeping peace for a period of inquiry".Addressing a press conference at the CPI(ML) Liberation parliamentary office in New Delhi, Bora said peaceful demonstrations were a democratic right. She questioned how raising concerns against the government could be considered a threat to peace, PTI reported. "If we do not ask the government any questions, whose peace are we keeping?" she asked, stressing that the right to question those in power and express dissent was fundamental to democracy.Bora said the fight against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, regardless of the direction it took, must not lead to the right to dissent being labelled a threat to peace.
The notice was issued a day after Delhi Police detained Bora when she joined the 'Lehra Do Tiranga' march in the capital. The demonstration was part of protests demanding Kumar's resignation over alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls.Bora challenged the notice in the Delhi High Court, calling the preventive proceedings an attempt to suppress peaceful dissent.
She argued that the notice did not adequately establish the likelihood of a breach of peace.Maintaining that peaceful protests and democratic opposition should not be treated as public-order violations, Bora said she would not furnish the bond and reiterated that the right to dissent must be protected.- Ends