India, Sept. 4 -- Activist Manoj Jarange on Wednesday submitted to the Bombay High Court that the Maratha quota agitation has been called off after the issue was resolved. A bench of acting Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Aarti Sathe accepted the submission but said the activist will have to file his affidavit in response to various other allegations made in the petitions against the five-day protest held by him and his supporters in Mumbai.
"There are some issues. Large-scale damages were caused to public property. Who will pay for that," the bench asked. Advocates Satish Maneshinde and V M Thorat, appearing for Jarange and the organisations that led the agitation, however, asserted that no such damage was caused except for...