Though CCTV cameras across the city have helped the police in nailing culprits, Right to Information applicant Sanjay Shrivastava, who had demanded recordings of DN Nagar police station, was surprised by the reply to his application.
Though CCTV cameras across the city have helped the police in nailing culprits, Right to Information (RTI) applicant Sanjay Shrivastava, who had demanded recordings of DN Nagar police station, was surprised by the reply to his application.
It said that though the police station had CCTV cameras installed, there was no recording facility in it.
Shrivastava and his friends - Gaurav Chaurasia, Kamlesh Mishra and Nagesh Tiwari - who were arrested and brought to the respective police stations on October 18, had accused assistant inspector IM Gaikwad of assaulting them in the police station and manipulating their medical reports.
“We had filed a private complaint against Gaikwad in the Andheri magistrate court. It had issued a summons against him on November 7, 2010 and he has been out on bail since December 8. My clients are still being threatened by different people at different times. That’s why we filed an application for cancellation of his bail on January 25,” said advocate Avinash Dubey. “The CCTV footage will be the strongest proof of our assault and we suspect it’s been denied on purpose,” said Shrivastava.
The application for the bail cancellation is scheduled to be heard in the court on March 7.
Shrivastava had filed an RTI application to the additional commissioner’s (west region) office in December. After getting no response, he made another appeal to the deputy commissioner of police’s (Zone IX) office in January to get the footage of the inside of the police station recorded on October 18, 2010.
The reply, a copy of which is with DNA, reads, “CCTV is available but recording is not.” In response to an SMS pertaining to the reply, DCP KMM Prasanna also responded, “There was no recording facility.”
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