Published on : 15 Oct 2025, 11:53 am 1 min read

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea seeking directions to make public the recording of CCTV cameras installed across the national capital [Save India Foundation v Govt of NCT of Delhi & Ors] .

A Division Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela said that not everything can be in the public domain and that the petitioner was asking for the public to do policing.

“Participatory democracy doesn’t mean tomorrow you will participate in war [on the borders]… We can’t accede to such prayers,” the Court remarked.

Further, the Court said that if the prayer is granted, it would amount to granting the petitioner the policing rights.

“We are afraid we cannot grant such a prayer f

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