Court reprimands DP for its attitude on audio-video recording

The Delhi Police were reprimanded by a court here for its evasive attitude on audio-video recording of the statement of witness during the trial of criminal cases.
The court expressed its displeasure that despite the procedure being permitted under the law, the Delhi Police have considered the videographing and recording of evidence as vitiating the trial system.
The stand was taken by the police in two reports filed by office of Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar and the Additional CP, South West District, in pursuance of the court's January 4 order.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate D K Sharma had passed the direction in a case of death of a person in a road accident.

The judge had said the statement of public witnesses, complainant, eye witnesses and injured be recorded through video conferencing.
The court had acquitted the accused in the case owing to marked discrepancies in the statement of the father of the deceased recorded in writing by the police and his deposition in the court.