Overview
- Opposition MPs led by the Congress left the House during Question Hour after a listed starred question was withdrawn without explanation.
- BJP MP Aditya Prasad of Jharkhand had addressed the question to Home Minister Amit Shah on expanding CFSLs and using the Nirbhaya Fund to boost forensic capability under new criminal laws.
- The item was Starred Question No. 107, the second scheduled for the day, which would ordinarily require an oral answer and allow supplementary queries.
- Chairman C. P. Radhakrishnan said House rules permit a member to withdraw a question and told protesting MPs they had "no right to raise it."
- Union Minister Kiren Rijiju stood to speak but the Chair said there was no need to respond, after which Congress members walked out.