India, Aug. 27 -- Days after continuous protests by lawyers across Delhi's district courts, a petition has been filed in the Delhi High Court challenging Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena's August 13 notification allowing police officers to depose before courts via video conferencing from designated police stations.

The petition, filed on Tuesday by advocate Kapil Madan and argued by advocates Gurmukh Singh Arora and Ayushi Bisht, contends that the move undermines the solemnity of judicial proceedings, violates the right to a fair trial, and tilts the adversarial balance in favour of the prosecution. Saxena had approved the notification designating all 226 police stations in the Capital as video-conferencing centres for officers to provide e...