EDITORIALRIGHT TO PROTEST & PREVENTIVE DETENTION LAW
The Number the Police Got Wrong and What It Costs Either Way
The scale of the police response and the scale of the crowd-estimation failure that preceded it, has reopened the question of how much operational discretion police should have to control an unpredictable crowd before that discretion itself becomes disproportionate force - a live test of the boundary the Supreme Court has drawn in cases like *Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan* (2018) and *Amit Sahni* (2020).
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