The Supreme Court on Monday clarified that states can withdraw first information reports filed against youth protesters wherever permissible, in accordance with the law, Live Law reported. They argued that closing the FIRs was part of the Union government’s promise to leaders of the Cockroach Janta Party political campaign to end the protests. On July 25, three protesters were injured after the police opened fire on demonstrators in Bihar’s Siwan district. Following this, a batch of petitions was filed in the Supreme Court, seeking nationwide guidelines to regulate police action during protests , including a ban on the deployment of plainclothes personnel for crowd-control duties. Plea in SC action against organisers of protestThe Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a petition seeking action against the “organisers” of the July 20 march to Parliament for allegedly inciting violence, Live Law reported.