Punjab, Oct. 13 -- On Sunday the Supreme Court issued a contempt notice naming the Delhi Police Commissioner. On Monday the Delhi Police Commissioner signed an order removing the capital's designated protest site. Both things can be lawful and the sequence can still be the problem.
The narrow point first
Nobody has established that Anurag Kumar acted improperly. The de-notification order cites a Union Home Ministry committee's recommendations, and such a committee presumably did its work over months rather than overnight. A police commissioner signs standing orders; that is the job. And Jantar Mantar is genuinely too small for the protests that now converge on Delhi.
So this is not an accusation. It is an observation about how a decision...