The Cockroach Janta Party has withdrawn its call for a march on September 5 after the Union government moved to quash cases against protesters, Live Law quoted the political campaign’s co-convener Saurav Das as telling the Supreme Court on Tuesday.This came after the Supreme Court ordered that all first information reports registered across the country in connection with student protests held between July 20 and July 25 should not be pursued or investigated and must be treated as closed, reported Live Law.On Monday, the Union government moved the Supreme Court seeking to withdraw all FIRs filed in connection with the youth protests in Delhi.The application urged the court to quash the 13 FIRs registered in Delhi for offences including rioting, attempt to murder, robbery and damage to public property, using its special powers under Article 142 of the Constitution.Article 142 empowers the Supreme Court to pass orders necessary to ensure “complete justice” in any matter before it.The governments in Bihar, Assam, West Bengal and Maharashtra had also moved the Supreme Court seeking to quash 116 FIRs registered in connection with the youth protests, reported Live Law.While Bihar moved to quash 69 FIRs, Maharashtra placed before the court 34 cases to be quashed. West Bengal sought to cancel eight FIRs and Assam listed five cases.The Bharatiya Janata Party is in power in all four states.On Tuesday, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the court that the Union government was also committed to providing compensation to the families of those who died by suicide after the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for admission to undergraduate medical courses was cancelled, reported Live Law.He added that the government needed three months “to work out the modalities”.Das said that the campaign “deems it appropriate to withdraw the call for the march” in view of the assurances and the order passed by the Supreme Court.The political campaign had announced the march on August 24, alleging that the Union government had failed to “honour its July 25 commitments” that led the campaign to call off its protest at Jantar Mantar.One of the demands was that “no punitive action would be taken against any protester, either now or in the future” in any state ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party or its National Democratic Alliance. The campaign had also demanded compensation for the families of aspirants who died by suicide.Despite accepting the demands, the government had “played delay games, hidden behind technicalities and avoided giving clear commitments even before the Supreme Court”, instead of implementing what was promised to the protesters, the campaign had said.On Monday, the government told the court that no fresh FIRs will be filed in connection with the incidents mentioned in the application. It also said that if any similar FIR is filed later, the authorities will not oppose its quashing.However, it sought permission for the Delhi Police to register a fresh FIR against 2,873 persons with serious criminal records who were present at the protest site.Youth protestsThe protests began on June 6, when the Cockroach Janta Party held a demonstration at Jantar Mantar demanding the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan, the Union education minister at the time.On July 20, thousands joined the protest. This came two days after the police forcibly took activist Sonam Wangchuk, who had been on a hunger strike for three weeks, to hospital.The protesters’ march to Parliament was met with a crackdown by police. Dozens were injured as the police used lathis and fired tear gas shells and pellet guns at the demonstrators. The police action turbocharged the agitation, which spread to other parts of the country. Pradhan resigned as the education minister on July 25.Edited by Tanya Shrivastava.