Think you are overestimating Milaards. They just do not have the capacity to monitor every single eviction drive. They will do some virtue signalling, hand out some 'kathod' observations (which will in turn make media headlines), will issue some opaque guidelines and that will be it. Majority of the houses and the shanties they are demolishing aren't even registered properties - the affected families cannot even fight a legal battle here! All these 'activists' and 'rapporteurs' have been filing petitions since 2018 (with some even making a career out of it) - do they have anything to show for yet?
Those demolitions of encroachments of suspected criminals were high profile well publicized events. It's impossible for the courts not to take cognizance of it especially since our andolanjeevis as you've rightly pointed out making a living out of such incidents will not miss these at all . After all their livelihood depends not just on such cases but the publicity which ensues.
Once they move courts , the latter will be compelled to act especially when they've raised such a hue & cry about it framing laws etc. And a more activist judge will actually make an example of the erring officials to deter the rest.
Have you gone thru the provisions the authorities are expected to comply with before actually demolishing the encroachments ? It's indeed designed to enable the offenders to move courts.
That's only one side of the story. There's absolutely no way they can frame rules to ensure genuine encroachments without any relation to punitive demolitions of offenders don't fall under the same category , hence escape demolition which is the objective of this particular case.
So what's the suspected outcome ? They'd frame omnibus rules designed to ensure anybody who can will end up moving courts indefinitely prolonging the entire process. The only cost here is that of doing the rounds of the courts interminably & of course the damage to one's finances.
This is a war of attrition like everything the judiciary has been waging against the government of the day irrespective of the party running the show. It's designed to institutionalise gradual judicial encroachment into the executive's powers. This has been going on since 4 decades with the pace picking up every time there's a weak government at the centre.
That's what this is all about. Don't think exponential think incremental here & you'd get what I'm getting at .