NEW DELHI: Disapproving the continuing blockade at Shaheen Bagh and expressing the hope that good sense would prevail over anti-CAA agitators leading them to vacate the road and shift their protest to an alternative site, the Supreme Court on Monday asked senior advocates Sanjay Hegde, Sadhana Ramachandran and former chief information commissioner Wajahat Habibullah to hold consultations with the agitators.Though a bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and KM Joseph held organising protests is good for democracy and people have a fundamental right to dissent against the Citizenship Amendment Act even when the matter is pending in court, they disapproved the practice of blocking roads and public places during stir. “We are not saying that people have no right to protest during the pendency of the case. It is people’s fundamental right to assemble and protest. But the question is where to protest. Tomorrow there may be another law passed and what will happen if people start blocking roads in protest. What will happen if everybody starts blocking the roads. Our concern is what would it lead to if people start blocking the roads. It will create chaos,” the bench said.It said there are people who are supporting the law and they can also resort to blocking roads and that would further create problem.“What is troubling us is the blocking of public roads,” it said, emphasising that it was best to find out amicable solution to the problem by convincing protesters to shift their site of protest and clear the road for traffic.Solicitor general Tushar Mehta, appearing for Delhi Police, said that common people are facing problem due to Shaheen Bagh protests and told the bench that the police tried its best to persuade the protesters but they refused. He said that protesters are using women and children as shield due to which it has not been able to take any action against the protesters who are keeping the city to “hostage” under the garb of protest.But the bench also pulled up the government for not taking steps to resolve the problem in the last 60 days after Mehta contended that an impression should not go that authorities are kneeling down before the protesters. The court asked the Centre to explore all possibility and grant the protesters an alternate place to hold protests. “You can give a few options to protesters. Let you not close your mind, and try all possibilities,” the bench told the Centre.The court said it is very important that people are allowed to protest but every right comes with a responsibility and there are lines and boundaries within which people should hold protest in democracy.Hoping that protesters at Shaheen Bagh will realise and vacate the road, the bench said, “We expressed our opinion what we want to do. We are hopeful that reason will prevail on them. It is not a pleasant task but we have taken up the task to resolve it”.The apex court was hearing an appeal filed by advocate Amit Sahni and BJP leader Nand Kishore Garg seeking its directions to the Delhi Police to remove the protesters from Shaheen Bagh to ensure smooth traffic flow on the Kalindi Kunj-Shaheen Bagh stretch, which has been blocked by anti-CAA protesters since December 15.Wajahat Habibullah and Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad also moved the SC seeking impleadment in the case and alleged that the Delhi administration had deliberately blocked other roads connecting the capital to Noida and Faridabad to create public inconvenience. They contended that there were other routes which could be used for traffic movement after the main road was blocked due to the protests but the administration had deliberately blocked those roads on the pretext of the ongoing demonstration.