New Delhi: The Delhi high court on Friday (October 23) refused to grant relief to All India Students Association (AISA) national president Neha Bora’s plea challenging Delhi Police notice asking them to execute a bond of Rs 10,000 with a surety in order to maintain peace during the period of inquiry before a special executive magistrate (SEM), LiveLaw reported.“There are directions given to the magistrate to take care (before passing any order into conduct of enquiry), all materials to be given to the petitioner,” Justice Subaramonium Prasad ruled.A day ago, Bora’s counsel Gopal Sankaranarayanan argued before the court that “there is nothing wrong with seeking regime change in a democracy”. Bora had also sought a direction restraining the authorities from taking coercive action against them.The court had reserved its order.Additional solicitor general (ASG) Chetan Sharma, appearing for the Delhi Police, had questioned the maintainability of the petition, referring to certain material, including the joint press conference at Press Club of India, where they had made the statement on regime change.The ASG objected to Bora’s claim, saying, “A regime change in a democracy will happen by votes, not by lumpen elements congregating in the nerve of New Delhi.”Meanwhile, Sankaranarayanan pointed out factual incorrectness in the notice, which has associated Bora with a Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protest, arguing that the SEM’s notice to the activist was a “cut and paste job”, without applying independent judgment.Regarding the Delhi Police’s allegation that Neha had hoisted the national flag without permission, he maintained that citizens were not required to seek an official approval to hoist the tricolour.Bora was taken into preventive detention on October 16 on their way to join the ‘Lehra Do Tiranga’ march, called by the CJP and other civil society groups, students and activists. They were kept in detention all night and released on October 17.The notice, received by them on October 18, cited Sections 126 (to show cause an individual why peace bond may not be executed if he receives information that a person is likely commit a breach of the peace) and 130 (when the Magistrate acting under section 126, section 127, section 128 or section 129, deems it necessary to require any person to show cause under he shall make an order in writing mentioning certain particulars) BNSS, read with Section 135(3) BNSS.The SEM court is yet to hear the matter.Note: An earlier version of this report used wrong pronouns for Bora. The error is regretted.