Abstract The increasing dependence of the Indian government on spatial containment, which effectively pushes public protests to out-of-the-way, ‘designated’ places like Jantar Mantar according to preventive measures outlined in Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (now Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023),[i] has led to the silencing of dissent. Using…