Student Challenges Greater Noida Notice Over CJP Protest in Supreme Court

Challenge to the preventive notice

A second-year Gautam Buddha University student has moved the Supreme Court questioning a notice issued by the Greater Noida Executive Magistrate after he participated in the CJP protest at Jantar Mantar. The notice reportedly required him to show cause why he should not execute a personal bond of ₹5 lakh, with two sureties of the same amount, for maintaining peace.

Conflict with the Supreme Court’s earlier protection

The petition contends that the preventive action sought to achieve indirectly what the Supreme Court had already prohibited directly. On September 1, the Court had used Article 142 to close criminal proceedings arising from the July student protests and had restrained fresh coercive action against students in connection with them.

Although the local authorities later withdrew the notice, the student maintains that withdrawal does not answer the alleged breach of the Court’s binding direction. The matter raises an important question about compliance by executive magistrates with nationwide judicial protections concerning personal liberty and peaceful protest.