Paramvir Singh Saini vs Baljit Singh

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2023 Supreme(SC) 740

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
B.R. GAVAI, VIKRAM NATH, SANJAY KAROL, JJ.
Paramvir Singh Saini – Petitioner
Versus
Baljit Singh and Others – Respondents
Petition for Special Leave to Appeal (Crl.) No. 3543 of 2020
Decided On : 21-02-2023

Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Petitioners: Ganesh Khanna, Himanshu Bhushan, Dhawaljeet Dutta, Bankey Bihari, Birendra Bikram, Gautam Awasthi, Ashish Batra.
For the Respondents: Nikunj Dayal, Jaspreet Gogia, Abhishek Atrey, Jitendra Kumar Tripathi, Sunny Choudhary, R. Venkataramani, Tushar Mehta, Madhavi Divan, Chinmayee Chandra, Rajat Nair, Nidhi Khanna, Anandh Venkataramani, Vijayalakshmi Venkataramani, Vinayak Mehrotra, Mansi Sood, Chitvan Singhal, Sonali Jain, Abhishek Kumar Pandey, Raman Yadav, Sneha Kalita, Arvind Kumar Sharma, Mahfooz Ahsan Nazki, Polanki Gowtham, K.V. Girish Chowdary, T. Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy, Shaik Mohamad Haneef, Rajeswari Mukherjee, Abhimanyu Tewari, Eliza Bar, Manish Kumar, Ravi Shanker Jha, Sumeer Sodhi, Shreya Singh, Swati Ghildiyal, Devyani Bhatt, Shekhar Raj Sharma, Samar Vijay Singh, Paras Dutta, Amrita Verma, Keshav Mittal, Sabarni Som, B.K. Satija, Satish Pandey, Shailesh Madiyal, Vaibhav Sabharwal, Parth Awasthi, Akshay Kumar, K. Enatoli Sema, Limayinla Jamir, Amit Kumar Singh, Chubalemla Chang, Prang Newmai, Vishnu Sharma, Anando Mukherjee, Shwetank Singh, Mukti Chaudhry, V.N. Raghupathy, C.K. Sasi, Meena K. Poulose, Arjun Garg, Saurabh Mishra, Gopal Jha, Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Bharat Bagla, Sourav Singh, Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, Karun Sharma, Anupama Ngangom, Avijit Mani Tripathi, Upendra Mishra, P.S. Negi, T.k. Nayak, Marbiang Khongwir, Nirnimesh Dube, Siddhesh Kotwal, Nihar Dharmadhikari, Sampriti Baksi, Shovan Mishra, Bipasa Tripathy, D.K. Devesh, Manish Singhvi, Ashok Basoya, Sandeep Kumar Jha, Arpit Prakash, Narendra Kumar, Raghvendra Kumar, Anand Kumar Dubey, Jainendra Ojha, Rajiv Kumar Sinha, M. Yogesh Kanna, S. Udaya Kumar Sagar, Shuvodeep Roy, Sai Shashank, Deepayan Dutta, Garima Prashad, Ruchira Goel, Adit Jayeshbhai Shah, Jaswant Singh Rawat, Vikas Negi, Nand Lal, Astha Sharma, Ravinder Singh, Srisatya Mohanty, Raveesha Gupta, Sanjeev Kaushik, Mantika Haryani, Shreyas Awasthi, Himanshu Chakravarty, Devvrat Singh, Muskan Surana, G. Indira, Ajay Pal, Gurmeet Singh Makker, Tina Garg, M.K. Ghosh, Chandra Bhushan Prasad, Chirag M. Shroff, Raj Bahadur Yadav, S. Aravindh Uma Bhuvaneswari, Abbas, Liz Mathew, Karan Sharma, Rishabh Sharma, Mohit Siwach, Mrigank Prabhakar, Avinashi K. Bedi, Abdulla Naseeh V.T.

Headnote:CCTV Cameras - Compliance with Court Directions - Not specified Summary:
Fact of the Case:
The court addressed the non-compliance of agencies under the Union of India and various State Governments with the directions for installing CCTV cameras in police stations and offices.
Finding of the Court:
The court requested reports from the Amicus Curiae and directed the Union of India, State Governments, and Union Territories to submit affidavits regarding compliance. Non-compliance may lead to necessary steps against responsible officials.
Issues:
Non-compliance with court directions for CCTV camera installation in police stations and government offices.
Ratio Decidendi:
The court emphasized the importance of complying with its directions and warned of potential consequences for non-compliance.
Final Decision:
The matter was scheduled for further review on 18.4.2023.

ORDER :

1. Mr. Siddhartha Dave, learned Senior Advocate/Amicus Curiae has submitted the Sixth Report. The Report states that many of the agencies under the Union of India and various State Governments have not complied with the directions for installation of CCTV cameras in the police station as well as the offices of agencies under the Union of India.

2. We request the learned Amicus Curiae to supply a copy of the said Report to the learned ASG.

3. We further request the learned ASG to supply a copy of the said Report to the Union of India in the Ministry of Home Affairs. A copy of the Report shall be forwarded by the Home Ministry, Union of India to the Home Secretaries of all the States as well as the Union Territories in the country. The same shall be done within a week from today.

4. The learned ASG submits that there is already a compliance of the directions issued by this Court and placed a chart on record indicating the same.

5. Though the Chart would show that some of the agencies have complied with the directions, some of the agencies have not complied with even a part of the direction.

6. In that view of the matter, it would be appropriate that the Union of India as well as all the States/Union Territories shall file an affidavit stating therein the present status with regard to the compliance of the directions issued by this Court. The said affidavit shall be submitted on or prior to 29.03.2023. A copy of the said affidavit be supplied to the learned Amicus Curiae.

7. We clarify that in the event the directions, as issued by this Court, are not complied with by the Union of India and the respective State Governments/Union Territories, we shall be compelled to take such steps as found necessary against the Secretary (Home), Union of India as well as the Chief Secretary and the Secretary (Home) of the respective State Governments.

8. We further direct the Secretary (Home), Union of India to communicate this order to all the Chief Secretaries as well as the Home Secretaries of the respective States and the Union Territories.

9. We direct the matter to be placed on 18.4.2023.

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