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Government can put 15,000 CCTVs for Barack Obama but not for Indians, says Delhi High Court
It also issued notices to the Centre, Delhi government and city police and sought their responses on whether the cameras would be removed. "Will you remove it (cameras)? You take instructions. Notice. Delhi government, Centre and Delhi police seek time for instructions. Renotify on January 30," the bench said.
It also remarked, "It will take them years to remove it, if it is not vandalized before that." The bench's observations came on an application filed by advocate Meera Bhatia, claiming that the 15,000 CCTV cameras, which were being installed by the government as a security measure ahead of the Obama visit to the capital on Republic Day, should not be removed in a hurry.
"In the light of the Nirbhaya case, it is evident that the law and order situation in Delhi demands that these cameras (being installed for US president's arrival) should not be removed from some strategic places like the entry and exit points of the capital and other places mapped as the high crime rate zones here," it said.
It also alleged that despite the high court's earlier direction to the government to install CCTV camera across the capital for tracking rape cases and keeping vigil, the same has not been followed.
"Had the cameras been installed at the required places, the Nirbhaya case and other the unfortunate incidents of similar nature might have been avoided or tracked easily," the application said.
Source: Government can put 15,000 CCTVs for Barack Obama but not for Indians, says Delhi High Court
- IBNLive
It also issued notices to the Centre, Delhi government and city police and sought their responses on whether the cameras would be removed. "Will you remove it (cameras)? You take instructions. Notice. Delhi government, Centre and Delhi police seek time for instructions. Renotify on January 30," the bench said.
It also remarked, "It will take them years to remove it, if it is not vandalized before that." The bench's observations came on an application filed by advocate Meera Bhatia, claiming that the 15,000 CCTV cameras, which were being installed by the government as a security measure ahead of the Obama visit to the capital on Republic Day, should not be removed in a hurry.
"In the light of the Nirbhaya case, it is evident that the law and order situation in Delhi demands that these cameras (being installed for US president's arrival) should not be removed from some strategic places like the entry and exit points of the capital and other places mapped as the high crime rate zones here," it said.
It also alleged that despite the high court's earlier direction to the government to install CCTV camera across the capital for tracking rape cases and keeping vigil, the same has not been followed.
"Had the cameras been installed at the required places, the Nirbhaya case and other the unfortunate incidents of similar nature might have been avoided or tracked easily," the application said.
Source: Government can put 15,000 CCTVs for Barack Obama but not for Indians, says Delhi High Court
- IBNLive
