‘No law bars eating chicken over Ganga’: SC judge slams arrest of Muslim students over biryani on boat ride

Justice Ujjal Bhuyan also said that peaceful protest is central to a democracy, but ordinary acts of dissent are increasingly being treated as criminal conduct.
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