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In 2011, SC had taken suo motu cognisance of Delhi Police’s midnight crackdown on Baba Ramdev’s sleeping supporters at Ramlila Maidan, and ordered action against erring officers.
The Supreme Court convened a significant hearing on Sunday and issued interim directions amid the ongoing crackdown on protesters— but the order was, in substance, a restatement of existing law. What was needed was not a reminder but a reckoning.