Essay on stop violence and safe guard of public property
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Supreme Court (SC) said it will hear all pleas related to the Jamia Milia Islamia clashes while issuing a stern warning to students to stop riots. Citing destruction of property amid anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests in the national capital, Chief justice of India SA Bobde said, If violence and destruction of public property continues, we will not hear it. The development comes as several pleas have been filed after a violent clash between Delhi Police and Jamia students. Pleas on similar clashes in Aligarh Muslim University will also be heard by the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, protests were carried out in several places in West Bengal and Assam. At least 5 trains and three railway stations were torched in West Bengal. Similar scenes were witnessed in Assam as well.
A large number of citizens are on the streets protesting the newly amended Citizenship Act. Their right to protect emerges from Article 19 (1)(a) of the Constitution. It gives all citizens the right “to assemble peacefully and without arms”. Citizens hitting the streets of cities across states against the Citizenship Amendment Act are exercising their fundamental right guaranteed under the Constitution. But the visuals beamed on the television show that many of them are using arms – stones, bricks, lathis and some inflammable materials too and have damaged public property, even resorting to setting public and private vehicles on fire. These violent protests have taken place at places where restrictions were imposed under Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC). Resorting to violence during protest is violation of a key fundamental duty of citizens. Enumerated in Article 51A, the Constitution makes it a fundamental duty of every citizen “to safeguard public property and to abjure violence”.