Delhi Police denies permission for public meeting on Kashmir at Gandhi Peace Foundation

The Delhi Police has denied permission for a public meeting on Kashmir at the Gandhi Peace Foundation on Wednesday, citing the possibility of law and order disturbance, officials said on Wednesday.

The event was scheduled at 2 pm at the venue and the speakers at the event included Delhi University professor Nandita Narain, Hussain Masood, retired judge of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, CPI (M) leader MY Tarigami, filmmaker Sanjay Kak, Mir Shahid Saleem, Chairman of United Peace Alliance, and Anil Chamadia, a senior journalist.

According to Narain, one of the speakers of the event, the public meeting was organised by several student and teacher groups.

Last week, the Delhi High Court allowed the holding of a national seminar of the members of a collective called Bharat Bachao and asked the organisers to provide a list of participants and their details to the police

At that time, Gade Inna Reddy and Mondru Francis Gopinath, members of Bharat Bachao, a collective of scholars, had approached the court with a grievance that the Delhi Police unilaterally denied them permission to organise the private programme, titled Understanding Fascism in Present India Context, two days before the event was to be held.

Justice Tushar Rao Gedela had asked the parties to cooperate with each other to ensure that the seminar is held in a peaceful atmosphere and there is no untoward incident.