A bench of justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta took suo motu discover of a information report which mentioned there have been 11 deaths within the final seven to eight months in police custody.
“We're directing for a suo motu public curiosity litigation titled ‘lack of purposeful CCTVs in police stations' because it has been reported that there are eleven deaths within the final seven to eight months within the yr 2025 in police custody,” the bench mentioned in its order. Vide a 2020 judgement, SC had ordered necessary set up of CCTVs in police stations. It had directed states and UTs to put in CCTVs with evening imaginative and prescient cameras in every police station.
Lack of purposeful CCTVs in police stations comes on apex courtroom radar
The Supreme Court docket on Thursday took suo motu cognizance of lack of purposeful CCTVs in police stations.
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