The incident took place in early January when a group of men assaulted a Muslim man, removed his clothes, tied his legs with rope, dragged him naked on the street and forced him to chant 'Jai Sri Ram' ...
"If the State is unable to provide speedy trial to the accused, it should not oppose bail on the ground that the crime committed is serious," the Court added.
It is not the bulldozer per se that offends constitutional sensibilities but the ease with which it is deployed before the law has spoken its final word, the Court said.