A Vacuum Dressed As PolicyIndia has no statute that authorises, regulates, or limits the use of facial recognition technology (FRT) by police at public assemblies. Neither statute was drafted with a scenario like Jantar Mantar in mind, and neither statute constrains it. It is what a legal vacuum looks like in practice technology deployed at scale, answerable to no statute, and therefore, in constitutional terms, answerable to no one. The Puttaswamy Test, Applied To A CrowdThe constitutional vocabulary for testing this practice already exists. This indiscriminate character is also what gives the challenge its second constitutional dimension: the chilling effect on Article 19(1)(a) and 19(1)(b) rights.