New Delhi, Oct. 9 -- The Supreme Court on Friday, October 9, offered a small measure of relief to protesters, as it flagged public inconvenience caused by the Metro shutdown and dismissed a plea seeking a probe into Delhi Police FIRs against student protesters at Jantar Mantar.

The apex court directed the Centre not to stop train services to Delhi and close the Metro stations ahead of the October 10 protests announced by the CJP and Opposition parties against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.

Asserting that there is a "distinction between complete prohibition and regulation of movement of Metro and other trains", the court asked the Centre to allow these services in a regulated manner and give due publicity to its advisory so t...