Sonam Wangchuk Hunger Strike News Live Updates: PIL before Delhi High Court seeks force feeding

Wangchuk has been on an indefinite hunger strike at Jantar Mantar. (File photo)

Sonam Wangchuk News Live Updates: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice to Centre and Delhi government on a Public Interest Litigation seeking urgent medical aid for activist Sonam Wangchuk, who has been on an indefinite hunger strike at Jantar Mantar.

The petition filed by advocate Rakesh Kumar Saini seeks necessary aid to Wangchuk to improve his deteriorating health and ‘life-threatening’ health conditions. The plea also seeks directions to force-feed him through vital liquid diets, proteins, vitamins and essential for human life.

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The plea states that holding a peaceful protest at a public place is a fundamental, democratic right of the citizen, and that creating an impediment in holding such an activity would amount to a threat to the democratic values of our country. The plea further points out that such incidents have taken place in the past, and measures were taken to save the life of the protester. It states that in such situations, the government has rather been lauded for taking such wise steps in the discharge of its constitutional and public duty rather than being condemned or criticised.

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