PRAYAGRAJ, Sept. 30 -- The Allahabad high court has laid down safeguards to be followed by the police when CCTV surveillance is non-functional at a police station. It directed that details of all persons brought for interrogation or arrest must be recorded in the general diary (GD) at the same time.

A division bench comprising justice Atul Sreedharan and justice Achal Sachdev issued these directions in the case of Raghvendra Dubey And Another vs. State Of U.P. And 4 Others.

The court observed, "The facts of this case, prima facie, strongly go to disclose that the police personnel acted as recovery agents on behalf of the complainant."

Setting aside the arrest of the petitioner due to a "grossly deficient" arrest memo witnessed only by ...