Prayagraj, Sept. 30 -- The Allahabad High Court has said that CCTV systems within police stations must remain operational 24x7 throughout the year and police must follow certain safeguards when such surveillance is non-functional.
If CCTV is non-functional, details of all persons brought for
interrogation or arrest must be recorded contemporaneously in the General Diary (GD), it said.
A bench of justices Atul Sreedharan and Achal Sachdev made the observations while hearing a case of Raghvendra Dubey and another.
In its order dated September 23, the court directed that CCTV systems within police stations must remain operational 24/7 and for 365 days.
The court observed, "The facts of this case, prima facie, strongly disclose that the police personnel acted as recovery agents on behalf of the complainant."
According to the petitioner, he was illegally picked up from Asansol and brought to Sardhuwa police station in Chitrakoot due to a sand-mining agreement dispute.
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