Summary:
Both Naqvi and Azad also filed a joint affidavit summarising their understanding of the Shaheen Bagh situation. Azad was earlier allowed by the top court to interact with the protesters as an intervening applicant in the matter. In his affidavit filed in the top court, Habibullah has contended that "Shaheen Bagh stands tall as a firm example of peaceful dignified dissent, more so in the face of various instances of state-sponsored violence on similar dissents across India. "We have been sad and mute witnesses to police brutality and negative typecasting of a particular community across the country. Crushing dissent instead of entering into a dialogue is the new norm, but it is alien to our Constitution," he has claimed..