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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court-appointed panel of interlocutors again on Tuesday night visted Shaheen Bagh to engage the protesters into a second round of talks as efforts to convince them to move to an alternate location continue. Senior advocates Sadhna Ramachandran and Sanjay Hegde urged protesters on Tuesday night to "embrace positive solutions" to resolve the deadlock over the protest site, especially in light of the upcoming Holi festival on 10 March. On February 17, the Supreme Court had appointed senior lawyers Hegde and Sadhana Ramachandran, besides former CIC Wajahat Habibullah, to hold talks with protesters at Shaheen Bagh area to convince them to hold the agitation at an alternative site. The interlocutors had submitted their reports to the SC in a sealed cover on February 24. Thousands of people, the majority of them women, have been holding a sit-in protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the proposed NRC at Delhi's Shaheen Bagh area since mid-December last year..