Despite the evidence available on videos on social media, Delhi policemen justified their overwhelming presence at the site differently. “They have been silently protesting and have been causing no threat to law and order,” a group of policemen admitted to NH. An inspector who gave his name as Sahdev Singh Tomar confirmed, “We are just here for their protection.”

“There are anti-social elements trying to mix with the protestors and we are here to make sure that they are not successful in their attempts to either disturb the non-violent protests or the law and order situation here,” the inspector claimed.

The candidates scoffed at the statement issued by the SSC chairman expressing satisfaction at the Government accepting its recommendation for a CBI probe. They pointed out to the last sentence of the statement in which the SSC chairman hopes that the CBI probe would expose external forces which instigated the protests. That lets the cat out of the bag, they felt.