As per a report by MediaNama, its author saw a white SUV marked "Facial Recognition System" and "South District" outside Select Citywalk in Saket on the evening of November 1 and could not confirm whether its cameras were on. Citing news reports, MediaNama describes two kinds of vehicle: DP-DRISTHI, launched by Shahdara district police at Gandhi Nagar market in February 2026, which can reportedly scan several faces a minute and match them against a database of people with prior involvement in crime, and Ikshana, a "live CCTV surveillance vehicle" inducted before the 2023 G20 Summit and reportedly seen at Jantar Mantar during the July 2026 protests. The Shahdara DCP, Prashant Gautam, is quoted as saying the unit aims to create a "zero-blind-spot" environment in commercial hubs.

Delhi Police told the Supreme Court in August that its use of facial recognition at the Jantar Mantar protest was "confined to persons with existing criminal records" and was not indiscriminate surveillance, and that 2,873 persons were identified between July 20 and July 26. A Delhi Police tender for 338 face-recognition cameras across Central and New Delhi districts, worth Rs 15.66 crore, was reportedly published on the Government e-Marketplace on July 30, five days after the protests ended. MediaNama says it found no statute and no published standard operating procedure governing police use of facial recognition in Delhi, notes that the Supreme Court's Puttaswamy judgment requires a law-backed, proportionate basis for state intrusions on privacy, and says the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, which allows exemptions for state agencies, has not fully come into force and it found no exemption order covering Delhi Police. The report does not say what databases are checked, how long images and matches are kept, or whether the public is told when a vehicle is in use.