SC to Hear Baba Ramdev Case Today
posted on Aug 8, 2011 @ 12:32PM
The Supreme Court will hear today the suo-moto case on the police crackdown on yoga guru Baba Ramdev and his followers, which took place on June 4. This was after the court watched visuals of the crackdown on Friday.
The court had on June 6 taken suo motu cognisance of the police action on a gathering of Ramdev and his followers at Ramlila Maidan where they were staging a protest on the issue of corruption and black money. They had asked the Centre and Delhi police to explain why there was a need to use teargas and baton-charge in a closed enclosure when people were sleeping.
Delhi police chief B.K. Gupta, in an affidavit to the apex court, had said that the permission to use the Ramlila Ground was given for a yoga camp and not for any other purpose.
The court had also said that it would consider Ramdev's plea to issue notice to Home Minister P. Chidambaram on the grounds that the decision to use force against him and his followers at the anti-graft protest, was not taken by Delhi Police on June 4, but it was taken much earlier at the political level.