India, Sept. 15 -- The Supreme Court (SC) is scheduled to hear on Monday 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.
A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta is likely to hear the matter.
On September 4, the bench had 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 h...