New Delhi, July 24 -- The Delhi High Court on Thursday agreed to hear on Friday a petition seeking a National Investigation Agency (NIA) probe into the Cockroach Janata Party's (CJP) student protest and the violence that erupted during its "Chalo Sansad" march to Parliament.

The court's move comes a day after it sought responses from the Centre and Delhi Police on pleas seeking an inquiry into alleged police excesses during the demonstrations.

The matter was mentioned before the court by advocate Barun Sinha, appearing for petitioner Satish Kumar Aggarwal, former vice-president of the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha, who urged that the plea be taken up on Friday.

Sinha submitted that the "so-called student agitation" had effectively "made...