SC junks plea seeking ban on roadshows, bike rallies

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a petition filed by a former DGP of Uttar Pradesh and an environmentalist seeking a direction to the Election Commission to ban roadshows and bike rallies during polls. “We are not inclined to entertain this,” a bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Deepak Gupta told advocate Virag Gupta, who was appearing for petitioners Vikram Singh and environmentalist Shaivika Agrawal. Singh, a former DGP of Uttar Pradesh, and Agrawal had said in their plea that roadshows and bike rallies violate the EC’s instructions and cause damage to the environment. The plea had also said VVIPs are vulnerable to terror attacks while campaigning in ‘raths’. PTI

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