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In response to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) plea requesting protection for doctors during the current pandemic, the Gauhati High Court declared on Friday that simply installing CCTV cameras in hospitals is insufficient and that the cameras must be connected to the nearest police station. As a result of this observation, the Bench of Chief Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Justice Manash Ranjan Pathak instructed the Assam Government to inform the Court within ten days of any progress made in this regard. During the last hearing, the Bench was informed by the Advocate General, Assam, that the police had completed their investigation into the incident on 01.06.2021 in which medical professionals were attacked, a charge-sheet had been filed, and as many as twenty-four persons had already been arrested.
The Himachal Pradesh High Court recently directed the State Government to comply with the Supreme Court's order from last year by ensuring that CCTV cameras are installed inside covid-designated hospitals and also to make the footage available to the respective Expert Committee for period observations in dealing with covid 19 situations. A division bench comprising Chief Justice L Narayana Swamy and Justice Anoop Chitkara urged the state administration to comply with the Supreme Court's directives and make the footage available to the Expert Committee for escalating or ramping up the situation in areas where it is not placed. Wherever CCTV cameras are installed, they must be tested for functionality and, if they are, CCTV footage must be presented to the Expert Committee/Expert Bodies on a periodic basis for observation. In April 2020, the Bombay High Court's Nagpur bench directed the Collector of Nagpur, the Commissioner of Nagpur Municipal Corporation, and other officials to "prepare proposals for installing CCTV cameras in the corridors of all institutional quarantine centres" and, in the absence of corridors, at suitable locations for "electronic surveillance" to monitor the movement of quarrelsome animals. The Court set a deadline of ten days from the date of the aforementioned decision for submitting names to the State or Central Government and for recording a copy of the proposal.
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