Citing report on custodial deaths, Supreme Court directs PIL on ‘lack of CCTV in police stations’ | India News

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday took suo motu cognisance of a media report on custodial deaths in police stations and determined to look at implementation of its earlier order on putting in CCTV cameras in police stations.A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta referred to a report in Dainik Bhaskar on custodial deaths in Rajasthan. “…We are directing for a suo motu public interest litigation titled ‘lack of functional CCTVs in police stations’, as it has been reported that there have been 11 deaths in last 7-8 month in year 2025 in police custody,” the courtroom mentioned.The apex courtroom had in 2020 handed instructions making set up of CCTVs in police stations obligatory. The order additionally applies to places of work of central businesses the place interrogation is carried out.