The Greater Noida executive magistrate who issued a show-cause notice to a student over his alleged campaign seeking participation in a protest by the Cockroach Janata Party has been suspended, Live Law quoted Solicitor General Tushar Mehta as telling the Supreme Court on Thursday.The notice had asked the student to furnish a personal bond of Rs 5 lakh.The 20-year-old law student at Gautam Buddh University, Akshat Tripathi, had challenged the magistrate’s notice, which was issued after a police report alleged that he was instigating other students to participate in a proposed protest.The notice stated that Tripathi was “spreading anti-government, misleading statements among other university students and provoking them”, which could “disrupt public peace”.Tripathi had said that he had not been going to the university for the past three months.“I was working at the Allahabad High Court in July,” he said. “How could I go to the university and provoke people?”The notice was withdrawn the following day after the allegations were investigated.On Wednesday, a lawyer verbally mentioned the matter before a bench headed by Chief Justice Surya Kant.The chief justice directed the lawyer to formally place the notice before the court through a petition and said that an explanation would then be sought from the authority concerned.It also asked how the executive magistrate could “dare” to issue the notice to Tripathi.“We made it clear that no coercive action should be taken against any student,” Kant said. “No magistrate could violate that order.”On September 1, 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, except those involving persons with criminal antecedents. The government had told the court that no fresh FIRs would be registered in connection with the protests.Edited by Sara Varghese.