UK based writer and journalist Amrit Wilson has moved the Delhi High Court against cancellation of her OCI card and sought restoration of the same. Wilson has sought quashing of the order passed by.
In Delhi in 2021, Section 144 was used by the police to successfully criminalise selling drugs such as Corex and Iodex without a prescription, flying kites with metallic or glass-coated manjhas, and opening a paan shop near educational institutions.
“We should be very worried and must not fall in the ‘public interest’ trap,” said Senior advocate Rebecca John, raising alarm over the indiscriminate invocation of Section 144 of the Code of.