‘Why not independent probe?’ Top court on police action during CJP protests

1 min readNew DelhiJul 28, 2026 11:54 AM IST Visuals from Parliament march crackdown in New Delhi on Monday, July 20 (Express Photo by Gajendra Yadav)Hearing petitions flagging police excesses during the crackdown on student protests in various parts of the country, the Supreme Court asked on Tuesday why an independent investigation should not be carried out to fix accountability. Ananthakrishnan G. is a Senior Assistant Editor with The Indian Express. He has been in the field for over 26 years, kicking off his journalism career as a freelancer in the late nineties with bylines in The Hindu. A graduate in law, he practised in the District judiciary in Kerala for about two years before switching to journalism. His first permanent assignment was with The Press Trust of India in Delhi where h