Summary:
With the Congress government on Friday denying Akalis the permission to hold the rally, the issue had reached court. Punjab government cited intelligence inputs against the rally and challenged the decision of a single-judge bench which ex-parte had allowed the Akalis to hold the rally. After a day-long legal tussle over Shiromani Akali Dal’s rally scheduled in Faridkot on Sunday, the Punjab and Haryana High Court late Saturday evening gave the party the green signal but with restrictions on certain routes leading to the rally site. Agarwal argued that ‘Pol Khol Rally’ was a series of public meetings held by the party, which had been successfully held. Late Friday night, the case was ordered to be listed before the single-judge bench of Justice Rakesh Kumar Jain..