Delhi High Court to Hear PIL Against LG’s Notification Allowing Police to Depose from Stations

The Delhi High Court will hear next week a PIL challenging a notification by Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena declaring all 226 police stations in the capital as “designated places” for recording depositions of police officers through video conferencing.

The petitioner argued that permitting police officials to depose from their own precincts undermines the right to a fair trial under Article 21 of the Constitution.

The Court listed the matter for September 3.

Meanwhile, bar associations across Delhi continued their strike against the notification, with lawyers appearing in courts wearing black ribbons.

[Kapil Madan v Union of India]