New Delhi, May 19 -- The Delhi High Court has observed that violence carried out in the guise of protest cannot be accepted in a democracy while dismissing a plea filed by accused persons seeking discharge in a case relating to the burning of an effigy outside the bungalow of the senior BJP leader and Union Minister J P Nadda.

Justice Girish Kathpalia said that after burning the effigy on the road, the accused Jagdeep Singh alias Jagga and others crossed the road, broad footpath and service lane to throw the burning portions onto the rooftop of the guardroom of the bungalow despite resistance from security personnel. The Court remarked that such conduct could not be described as a protest and was "nothing but a brazenly disruptive activi...