New Delhi: The Supreme Court will pronounce its verdict today on the issue of midnight crackdown on yoga guru Ramdev and his followers at Ramlila Maidan by the Delhi Police on June 4-5 last year during his anti-corruption agitation.
The apex court had taken suo motu cognisance of media reports purportedly showing brutality of police action against the followers of Ramdev, including women and children, who were reportedly sleeping at the time of the crackdown.
A woman later died due to the injury suffered in the police crackdown.
A bench of justices B S Chauhan and Swatanter Kumar had reserved the verdict on January 20.
Ramdev had alleged the police action was carried out on the instructions of their political masters and demanded action against all people who had directed the mid-night crackdown.
Delhi Police, however, claimed Ramdev had instigated his followers to indulge in violence, forcing the police to act at that time of the night.
Ramdev was agitating along with his followers against corruption and demanding that the UPA government must make sincere efforts to bring back black money illegally parked in secret foreign bank accounts by tax evaders.
The apex court had taken suo motu cognisance of media reports purportedly showing brutality of police action against the followers of Ramdev, including women and children, who were reportedly sleeping at the time of the crackdown.
A woman later died due to the injury suffered in the police crackdown.
Ramdev had alleged the police action was carried out on the instructions of their political masters and demanded action against all people who had directed the mid-night crackdown.
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Ramdev was agitating along with his followers against corruption and demanding that the UPA government must make sincere efforts to bring back black money illegally parked in secret foreign bank accounts by tax evaders.
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