Efforts to be made by police to use tech tools for fairness, efficacy: HC

WHILE technology enhances transparency of police investigation and ideally every effort should be made to use such aids, adopting the use of video or audio recording might not be feasible in some cases, the Delhi High Court has said while dismissing the bail plea of an accused in a narcotics case.

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The court observed that in absence of independent witnesses and videography, there is an added duty upon the court to scrutinise the evidence more carefully. In the present case under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS) Act, certain contraband was recovered from a vehicle in transit after a chase without any video recording.