The Supreme Court on Friday (December 19, 2025) sought responses from the Centre, Uttar Pradesh government and others on a plea filed by a woman advocate alleging illegal detention and custodial sexual assault at a police station in Noida.
A Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and N.V. Anjaria also directed the commissioner of police of Gautam Buddha Nagar district to ensure that CCTV camera footage from the police station for the concerned duration is not deleted or destroyed, and kept in a sealed cover.
The apex court was hearing the plea filed by the woman advocate, who claimed that she was subjected to 14 hours of "illegal detention, custodial sexual assault, torture and coercion" by police personnel at the Sector 126 police station in Noida late on the night of December 3 while she was discharging her professional duty towards her client.
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Senior advocate Vikas Singh, appearing for the petitioner, said it was a very gross case where a woman advocate was "sexually mauled" and kept under illegal detention.
