New Delhi/UNI: Fourteen political parties moved the Supreme Court complaining against the alleged misuse of law enforcing agencies by the union government to arrest political opponents.

Mention of the petition, by these 14 political parties for urgent hearing, was made before the Supreme Court by senior advocates Dr Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Vivek Tankha.

The 14 parties who had moved the Supreme Court were: Congress, DMK, RJD, BRS, TMC, AAP, NCP, Shiv Sena Udhav, JMM, JDU, CPI, CPM, SP, National Conference.

A bench of the Supreme Court, headed by the Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dr Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud said, we will hear the petition on April 5.

Dr Abhishek Manu Singhvi, lawyer for the parties, said that the parties are seeking laying down of guidelines for pre-arrest procedure to be followed by probe agencies and post-arrest procedure to be followed by prosecutors and courts.

The political parties, in their petition filed before the Supreme Court, are seeking laying down of guidelines by the SC for law enforcing agencies and courts on arrest and remand, Dr Singhvi said.