In a fresh bout of judicial activism, the Supreme Court of India, lastweek, banned government employees from going on strike. In a sweepingstatement a two-judge bench declared that government servants had nofundamental, legal or moral right to strike work. An extremely provocativestand that led many legal minds and constitutional experts to declare thatthe Supreme Court this time had overstepped its brief and that theobservation was most unfortunate and undemocratic.