Delhi High Court Rejects Plea to Make CCTV Footage Public
The Delhi High Court dismissed a PIL seeking directions to make public the recording of CCTV cameras installed across the national capital in the case of Save India Foundation v Govt of NCT of Delhi & Ors.
Participatory democracy doesn’t mean tomorrow you will participate in war [on the borders]… We can’t accede to such prayers
A Division Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela stated that not everything can be in the public domain and that the petitioner was asking for the public to do policing.
- The Court remarked that granting the prayer would amount to granting the petitioner policing rights.
Author's summary: Court rejects plea for public CCTV footage access.