PRAYAGRAJ, May 20 -- The Allahabad high court has directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to recover missing videographic evidence related to the alleged 2009 custodial death of a differently-abled man in Mainpuri, describing the case as a reflection of "institutional failure".

"This case discloses institutional failures. This is a PIL filed in the year 2010 and is still pending. Sixteen years down the line, the videography and photographs of the scene of occurrence and the postmortem are still not being made available to this Court to enable it to proceed further," the court observed.

A bench comprising Justice Atul Sreedharan and Justice Siddharth Nandan passed the order on May 18 while hearing a PIL filed in connection wit...