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The Supreme Court connected Friday (December 19, 2025) sought responses from the Centre, Uttar Pradesh authorities and others connected a plea filed by a pistillate advocator alleging amerciable detention and custodial intersexual battle astatine a constabulary presumption successful Noida.
A Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and N.V. Anjaria besides directed the commissioner of constabulary of Gautam Buddha Nagar territory to guarantee that CCTV camera footage from the constabulary presumption for the acrophobic duration is not deleted oregon destroyed, and kept successful a sealed cover.
The apex tribunal was proceeding the plea filed by the pistillate advocate, who claimed that she was subjected to 14 hours of "illegal detention, custodial intersexual assault, torture and coercion" by constabulary unit astatine the Sector 126 constabulary presumption successful Noida precocious connected the nighttime of December 3 portion she was discharging her nonrecreational work towards her client.
Senior advocator Vikas Singh, appearing for the petitioner, said it was a precise gross lawsuit wherever a pistillate advocator was "sexually mauled" and kept nether amerciable detention.
"This is simply a precise gross lawsuit happening close astir Delhi. If it is happening successful Noida, conscionable ideate the plight of the full country," Mr. Singh said.
The Bench said usually it would not person entertained the plea nether Article 32 of the Constitution, and would person fixed liberty to the petitioner to attack jurisdictional precocious court.
The apical tribunal said it was already dealing with a abstracted lawsuit relating to installation and functioning of CCTV cameras astatine constabulary stations successful Rajasthan. "However, considering the superior allegations made successful the petition, and the information that the contented besides relates to blocking of CCTV cameras for the duration of the incidental astatine the constabulary station, we are entertaining this petition. Issue notice, returnable connected January 7," the Bench said.
It added, "In the meantime, the Commissioner of Police, Gautam Buddh Nagar, is directed to guarantee that the CCTV footage of the acrophobic constabulary presumption for the acrophobic duration is not destroyed oregon deleted and is kept successful a sealed cover."
After the Bench passed the order, Mr. Singh raised the contented of extortion to the petitioner.
"They volition situation not interaction her aft passing of this order," the Bench said.
During the hearing, Mr. Singh said the CCTV cameras astatine the constabulary presumption should beryllium instantly seized. He besides said that the complainant was beaten up and was forced to retreat his complaint.
The Bench initially asked wherefore the petitioner did not attack the Allahabad High Court with her grievance. "We person each the sympathy. Let the precocious tribunal instrumentality due action," the Bench observed.
Mr. Singh said the apex tribunal whitethorn transportation the petition to the precocious court.
"The trouble is if we commencement entertaining this [plea], each matters from each astir Delhi volition travel to the Supreme Court only," the Bench said.
Mr. Singh past urged the seat to instrumentality this arsenic immoderate benignant of a "test case". The apical tribunal is besides monitoring the CCTV matter, which is precise important, helium said.
Mr. Singh said the apex tribunal should nonstop a awesome to the full state that specified incidents would not beryllium tolerated astatine all.
The Bench past agreed to perceive the plea, and issued announcement connected it.
The plea said the petitioner was targeted solely for discharging her nonrecreational work and insisting connected mandatory registration of an FIR for her grievously injured client.
"The petitioner's beingness was instantly endangered erstwhile a authorities pistol was placed upon her cervix by the constabulary staff, coercing her to surrender her mobile telephone password. She was besides subjected to continuous threats of being killed successful a fake encounter," the plea claimed.
It alleged that the officers maliciously disabled oregon removed CCTV systems from the constabulary presumption premises, which was successful flagrant usurpation of the binding mandate laid down by the apex court.
"The consequent behaviour of the authorities respondents compounds the violation. They failed to initiate a mandatory FIR, failed to unafraid evidence, and are actively protecting the accused officers, who proceed to contented threats of antagonistic FIRs against the petitioner," the plea claimed.
The petitioner sought a absorption to the Uttar Pradesh DGP to forthwith registry an FIR against the constabulary officers posted astatine the Sector 126 constabulary presumption connected the day of the incidental nether the applicable penal provisions.
Besides different prayers, the plea besides sought a absorption to the Uttar Pradesh authorities to entrust the probe of the substance to an Special Investigation Team oregon the Central Bureau of Investigation.
