The Bombay High Court has quashed an externment order issued against Saeed Ahmad Chaudhary, general secretary of the Socialist Democratic Party of India (SDPI), who had organised public protests on issues including the Citizenship Act amendments, according to a report by The Times of India’ Swati Deshpande.
Justice Madhav Jamdar, presiding over the single judge bench, questioned the prosecution over the one year externment order, which cited five FIRs lodged against Chaudhary, most of them related to protests against the central government.