India, Aug. 23 -- Lawyers across Delhi's six district courts went on a strike on Friday, protesting against a notification approved by Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena that allows police officers to depose before court via video conferencing from designated police stations.

The lawyers said the move undermines fair trial standards and reaffirmed that plans are afoot to sit on an agitation from next week, if their demands are not met.

Illegal to hold strikes

The strike comes in direct defiance of multiple Supreme Court rulings calling lawyers' strike as illegal and unethical. The top court has held that such protests obstruct justice and violate rights of litigants to access courts.

On September 2 last year, a Supreme Court bench, compris...