The use of force must remain directed towards neutralising imminent threats to public order rather than deterring the exercise of constitutional freedoms themselves. Here, the Court emphatically recognised that the maintenance of public order must remain compatible with constitutional guarantees of liberty and dignity. The preservation of public order cannot become a constitutional trump card that permits the abandonment of these obligations. Rather, it lies in the increasingly expansive conception of what constitutes public order and the correspondingly diminished space afforded to democratic dissent. The Delhi Police is entrusted not merely with maintaining public order, but with upholding the rights of citizens granted by the Constitution.