Accounts from numerous individuals across the two-day demonstrations organised by CJP and left-aligned parties in New Delhi have pointed to police officers physically handling and striking women among the protesters. Female officers drawn from paramilitary units and police forces across multiple states were deployed alongside Delhi Police to manage the crowd of women protesters.

Accounts from female demonstrators describe a pattern in which women officers carried out arrests and supervised detention, while male officers were responsible for the physical force used against them.

A cluster of individuals positioned themselves before a Delhi Police vehicle. Officers at the scene were predominantly male, most equipped with helmets and batons, though a small number of women also served among the deployed personnel. Officers on foot gradually forced the group toward the bus, at which point male police personnel began applying physical pressure against them. Hands remained raised throughout, yet forward pressure came through their bodies, while the female officers had by then moved to the outer edges of the crowd.

One protester, who asked not to be identified, described both the physical pain of being compressed against other bodies and a sense of personal degradation that accompanied it.

A video posted by a Students' Federation of India protester carried the claim that police had deliberately torn the clothing of women present, with the protester also describing the transport used as resembling the interior of a jail cell. Iron bars divided the interior into separate compartments, while the windows had been covered over to block any view in or out.

Female officers took hold of the group and moved them forcibly into the building. The same woman claimed that officers had gone so far as to choke some of the demonstrators. No statement from police had been received by the time the reports were published.

Footage captured at Saturday's demonstration near Safdarjung flyover shows a uniformed male officer moving at speed toward All India Students' Association president Neha Bora before the two made physical contact. With both hands lifted overhead, he stepped back and put distance between himself and the situation.

In a Sunday statement, SFI claimed that women taking part in the organisation's Tiranga Yatra were subsequently handled by male police officers during detention, with the group further alleging that those officers struck some of the women — conduct the organisation described as a breach of Section 45(1) of the BNSS, which provides that only female police officers may physically handle, search, or detain a woman. According to SFI, the vehicle lacked functioning lights and was not staffed with any female police personnel, a requirement established under the Sheela Barse vs State of Maharashtra judgment.

A police officer of senior rank put forward the interpretation that Section 45(1) of the BNSS drew a boundary around arrests alone, leaving detentions outside its scope.