The Delhi government on Thursday said it will not take any adverse legal action against those who took part in youth-led protests seeking the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan as the Union education minister, ANI reported.However, it stated that this protection would not be extended to those with “criminal antecedents”.The Home Department said that 13 cases had been registered by Delhi Police in connection with the protests in the national capital as of 6 PM on Wednesday.A Delhi government press release said that in cases where arrests or detentions had already been made, the review process for releasing those arrested will be carried out expeditiously, ANI reported. The government does not propose to take any further action against those involved in the protests, and the matter “shall be treated as closed without any future proceedings on this account”, it said.The cases relate to the violence that broke out during the Cockroach Janta Party’s planned march from Jantar Mantar to Parliament on July 20.On Tuesday, the Supreme Court had allowed the authorities in Delhi and other states to proceed with investigations in cases that have already been registered.However, it directed that no coercive action should be taken against protesting students and that minors who had been detained should be released, as long as they did not have any “criminal antecedents”.A bench headed by Chief Justice Surya Kant also directed the police authorities to preserve all surveillance camera footage, drone footage and camera recordings relating to the protests as a measure of “abundant precaution”.The Delhi Police has identified 2,873 persons through surveillance footage with previous criminal records, The Hindu reported on Monday.Delhi joins Bharatiya Janata Party governments in West Bengal, Maharashtra, Assam and Bihar in making similar announcements about withdrawing cases.Also read: Two days after Bihar promise to withdraw cases, families wait anxiously for protestors’ releaseWangchuk urges Centre to honour no-FIR assuranceEarlier in the day, activist Sonam Wangchuk had called on the Union government to honour its written assurance that no legal action would be taken against students who took part in the nationwide youth protestsIn a video shared on social media, Wangchuk urged the government to honour the commitments it had made to him and later to the Cockroach Janta Party, saying it had agreed that it would take “no legal action” against students who joined the demonstrations.He urged the Centre to “remain steadfast” to its promise and help create “an environment of trust”, especially among the country’s youth.The agitation in Delhi started on June 6, when the Cockroach Janta Party political campaign began a protest at Jantar Mantar to demand Pradhan’s resignation on account of alleged irregularities in the conduct of competitive exams. Solidarity protests were held in several states. Pradhan resigned on Saturday.On Monday, the Cockroach Janta Party remarked that there had been a “complete breach” of its agreement with the Union government with respect to its promise that no police action would be taken against peaceful protesters. It had warned of restarting protests if the cases were not withdrawn.The Cockroach Janta Party also said that the Supreme Court’s Tuesday directive was “wholly unacceptable” and described it as “uninformed”.The campaign’s spokesperson Saurav Das said that the group had a “credible apprehension” that the Union government and BJP-ruled states may “seek to use and weaponise” the order to continue filing and investigating FIRs against individual protesters and “subject them to great harassment”.Edited by Neerad Pandharipande.