As per a report by LiveLaw, a bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi on October 15 granted interim protection against coercive action to a woman journalist booked under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act in a case lodged by Delhi Police's ACP Vivek Bhagat, after she accused the officer of sexual harassment while covering the October 3 protest. The bench said it would consider a committee to examine complaints of sexual violence against women journalists, telling counsel: "We are prima facie agreeing that your committee will have to be of women judges, social workers, etc. We would like to lay down guidelines." Senior Advocate Indira Jaising was asked to provide the names of women willing to come forward.

LiveLaw and Bar & Bench report that notices were also issued on petitions challenging police action at the protests, including one by the Delhi Union of Journalists, and that preservation of videos was ordered. MediaNama reports that notice was issued in all 46 petitions the bench heard and that law enforcement agencies were told to preserve CCTV footage and digital material collected in connection with the protests. It quotes Justice Bagchi as saying "There will be layers of protection" across categories of journalists, and the Chief Justice as saying the court would keep in mind that "if everybody will start claiming [they are] journalists, it will lead to creating problems."