India, Sept. 5 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday directed registration of a suo motu public interest litigation over lack of functional CCTVs in police stations after taking cognisance of a media report.
The top court had in 2018 ordered installation of CCTV cameras in police stations to check human rights abuses.
On Thursday, a bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta referred to the media report and said, "We are directing for registration of a suo motu public interest litigation titled 'lack of functional CCTVs in police stations' as it has been reported that there are about 11 deaths in the last seven-eight months of this year in police custody".
In December 2020, the top court had directed the Centre to install CCTV cameras an...