The Supreme Court has given the Centre a deadline of three months, till July 18, to comply with the directions in its December 2020 judgment to install CCTV or closed circuit television cameras in the offices of its investigative agencies, for the sake of transparency and protection of human rights of accused and undertrials.
A Bench led by Justice B.R. Gavai noted how “disheartening” it was that several agencies had not taken any steps to comply with the court order.
“It is disheartening to note that insofar as the Union of India is concerned, out of seven investigating agencies no steps of sincere nature have been taken in case of four investigating agencies,” the apex court observed in a recent affidavit.
