Overview

• Trial-court bar associations said abstention from work will continue on 26 August, with protests reported across Saket, Patiala House, Rouse Avenue, Tis Hazari, Karkardooma and Dwarka.
• Bar leaders barred police vans, prosecutors and enforcement-agency counsel from entering several court complexes while staging demonstrations.
• A meeting with Chief Minister Rekha Gupta produced assurances that she would take up the issue with the L‑G and the Union Home Ministry, but no reversal was announced.
• In a letter to the L‑G, the Bar Council of India warned that allowing police witnesses to depose from stations would undermine cross‑examination, demeanour assessment and judicial control.
• The 13 August notification designates all 226 police stations as video‑conferencing venues under draft BNSS model rules, drawing condemnation from the SCBA, Delhi High Court bar bodies and the Bar Council of Delhi.