India, June 5 -- The Delhi High Court on Friday declined to urgently hear a petition seeking directions to the police to implement crowd-control measures at all major entry points, including the airport and metro stations, ahead of a proposed protest planned by the political satire group Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) at Delhi's Jantar Mantar on June 6.

The petition filed by NGO Save India Foundation's lawyer, Umesh Sharma, was mentioned before a vacation bench of Justices Saurabh Banerjee and Amit Sharma. The counsel urged the court to hear the petition on Friday itself; however, the court refused the request.

The protest, announced by CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke, seeks the resignation of Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan over th...