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The Delhi High Court Tuesday directed the land-owning and civic agencies concerned to grant permission for digging up stretches in order to install 6,630 CCTV cameras across the national capital. The direction came in a suo-moto petition initiated by the HC in 2012 after a young woman was gangraped in a moving bus in the national capital on December 16, 2012. The victim had later succumbed to injuries.
A division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad was hearing the petition wherein Additional Standing Counsel for the Delhi Government, Anuj Aggarwal, submitted that permissions were pending from the civic and land-owning agencies concerned required to complete the installation of the CCTV cameras in the city. He further submitted that Bharat Electronic Limited (BEL) should be added as a party as it has been hired for installing the CCTV cameras.
After hearing the counsel, the bench directed the agencies to expedite the grant of permission for digging stretches of 1,200 km to lay cables for installing 6,630 CCTV cameras in the national capital and allowed the impleadment of BEL as a party in the matter. In previous hearings, around 44 vulnerable areas in the city were identified for installing these CCTV cameras and initially a period of three months was granted to begin the installation process so as to enable the court to monitor the progress. The matter is now listed for February 7, 2023.
The High Court in July 2019 had asked all the stakeholders including the state government and the police to prepare an action plan for the national capital to make “Delhi crime free for women”. “If in other parts of this country, women can travel freely at any time in day or night, we see no reason as to why the capital of this country, which does not lack resources of any nature, should not be crime free for women and as to why women should not find it safe to travel even during day, much less, at night,” the court had observed in its order.
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