The Sarosh Kapadia-led Supreme Court is sticking to the straight and narrow. Recent judgments and orders indicate that it is following a conservative line by largely restricting itself to interpreting the law instead of trying to reshape it by taking on an activist role. Consider three cases. In the Vodafone tax case, on which judgment was pronounced on Friday, the court rapped the IT department on the knuckles for trying to tax a bonafide overseas transaction.