New Delhi, July 24 -- Advocate Barun Sinha, counsel for petitioner Satish Kumar Agarwal seeking a National Investigation Agency (NIA) probe into the ongoing Cockroach Janata party (CJP) protests told the court on Friday that the national capital has been "held hostage" for the past two or three days.

Speaking to reporters after the hearing on the plea in the Delhi High Court, Sinha said a Public Interest Litigation was filed by Agarwal, who was earlier Vice President of Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha. The bench comprising of Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia said that the decision to probe the protests through a particular agency is a government decision and not the courts. The court then subsequently allowed the petitione...