Overview

• The abstention entered day three on Monday across six district courts and was extended through Tuesday, suspending routine proceedings.
• Protest actions included blocking police vans from court premises and turning away some public prosecutors and police staff.
• Lieutenant Governor V. K. Saxena’s 13 August notification designates all 226 police stations as venues for police depositions via videoconference.
• Chief Minister Rekha Gupta told bar representatives she would raise their concerns with the L-G and the Union Home Ministry, but lawyers said no concrete outcome was reached.
• Bar associations argue police-station video testimony risks tutoring of witnesses and impairs presentation of physical evidence, and the SCBA and Delhi High Court bar groups have condemned the order.