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Supreme Court Sets December 16 Deadline for CCTV Compliance, Warns Officials to Appear in Person

The move follows reports of 11 custodial deaths in Rajasthan after years of patchy compliance with the court’s 2020 CCTV mandate.

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'Custodial violence and death a blot on system, country will not tolerate this', says SC
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Overview

  • The bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta granted a final three weeks for the Centre, 19 states and seven Union Territories to file compliance affidavits on functional CCTV systems.
  • Only 11 states/UTs have filed so far, prompting the court to question whether the Union is taking the court “very lightly” and to label custodial violence and deaths a “blot on the system.”
  • The order warns that senior officials — including principal home secretaries of defaulting states/UTs and directors of central agencies — must personally appear if filings are missing on December 16.
  • At the central level, compliance has been recorded for the NCB, DRI and SFIO, while the CBI, ED and NIA were indicated as yet to implement installations, with lack of dedicated funding cited.
  • The court is weighing centralized or independent technical monitoring to detect tampering or shutdowns, even as Madhya Pradesh was cited as a model linking police stations to district control rooms.