India, Oct. 14 -- The Bombay High Court on Tuesday refused to issue blanket orders restraining the police from detaining protesters seeking the removal of chief election commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar over alleged election malpractices, but said it would ensure that no person is illegally detained in instances brought to its notice.

"We cannot straight away say no detention at all," the division bench of Chief Justice Mahesh Chandra Tripathi and Justice Advait Sethna said while hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by advocate and activist Sagar Kantilal Devre, questioning the alleged illegal detention of protesters during the anti-CEC protests held in the city on October 10 and 11.

The judges, however, asked Devre to bring...