The Supreme Court on Tuesday pulled up the Rajasthan government for failing to install CCTV cameras inside the interrogation rooms of police stations, calling it the “main place” where such surveillance is essential to safeguard human rights.

A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta was hearing a suo motu case on the non-functional state of CCTV systems in police stations. “As per your affidavit, there is no camera in the interrogation room which is the main place where cameras have to be there,” the bench observed.

The court acknowledged that installing cameras involves expenditure but emphasised, “It is a question of human rights.”

The bench pressed the state to clarify how it plans to create an effective oversight mechanism. “The feed has to go to some centralised place or a

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