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The Tamil Nadu Information Commission has rejected the assertion of the Tiruvallur constabulary that footage of CCTV installed successful a constabulary presumption got auto-deleted.
Coming down heavy connected the Tiruvallur Town constabulary for not providing CCTV footage requested by Kothandan of Thirumullaivoyal successful Chennai, the committee said that the Public Information Officer had failed successful his duties by not securing the information requested by the petitioner.
Mr Kothandan, who visited the constabulary presumption connected October 14, 2024, alleged that his mobile telephone was taken distant from his possession and important data, evidences and immoderate documents stored successful it were erased by the policemen without his consent. The adjacent time helium submitted a petition nether the Right to Information Act, 2005, asking for the footage from the CCTV installed successful the constabulary station.
When the constabulary did not stock the information wrong the stipulated clip and nary effect was forthcoming from the First Appellate Authority, the petitioned filed an entreaty earlier the TNIC.
When the substance came up for hearing, the State Information Commissioner R. Priyakumar said the PIO should person secured the information requested by the petitioner since helium wanted it the precise adjacent time of his visit. The basal that the footage got auto-deleted owed to retention capableness was not acceptable, helium said.
He directed the supervisory serviceman to behaviour an enquiry with the PIO and explicate wherefore punishment and disciplinary enactment should not beryllium taken against him for dereliction of duty.
Mr Priyakumar relied connected the guidelines issued by the Director General of Police successful 2020 wherein each Commissioners and Superintendents of Police were told to guarantee that CCTV strategy had 20 days of recording. In the lawsuit of immoderate video footage required, the aforesaid should beryllium done with the cognition of CoPs/SPs for the specified play of operation.
The instructions were issued by the DGP amidst reliable accusation that immoderate persons had deleted oregon edited video footage recorded successful the CCTV cameras installed successful constabulary stations.
