India, Sept. 16 -- The Supreme Court on Monday suggested for fully automated control rooms to monitor feeds of CCTV cameras installed at police stations across the country and detect non-functional CCTVs.
A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta said it would pass order on September 26 in the suo motu matter over lack of functional CCTVs in police stations. "The issue is of oversight," the bench observed.
"What we were thinking of is a control room in which there is no human intervention. So all feeds are provided to the control room and if any camera goes off,
immediately, there is a flag. That is the way this thing can be tackled. There is no other way," Justice Mehta said.
The bench said initially, there has to be an inspect...