Ministers behind crackdown on Ramdev: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

A day after the Supreme Court slammed the Delhi Police for its handling of Baba Ramdev’s Ramlila ground protest in June last year, spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Friday squarely put the blame for the midnight crackdown on the UPA government and its ministers.

Inaugurating a two-day seminar on Indian diaspora human rights issues, Ravi Shankar said the Delhi Police were only following the orders of the political masters and called for “more work” to be done so such swoop downs are not repeated.

“The Supreme Court has come very heavily on the government. It is not just the police, but people behind the police who have to be taken care of,” he said at the event organised by Human Rights Defense (India), a civil rights body.

“Police were only doing their duty and it was somebody else, who gave the instructions. So the buck does not stop there, as it was not the police alone who did this violence. It was a bad day for Indian democracy,” he said.

“More work needs to be done so that such incidents are not repeated,” he added.