Ballabhgarh murder caught on camera! CCTV footage shows 21-year-old student shot dead in cold blood
πCCTV footage shows a girl named Nikita Tomar being shot dead by an assailant (Taufeeq) outside her college in Ballabgarh, Faridabad. Shooter and associate flees in car. Police have arrested Taufeeq and his associate.
πAdmissibility of Electronic Evidences in Court:
Electronic documents are admissible as materialΒ evidence. The computer generated electronic recordsΒ in evidence are admissible at a trial if proved inΒ the manner specified by Section 65B of the Indian Evidence Act.
πCredibility of CCTV Camera in eye of Law::
CCTV evidence has the potential to be conclusive enough to prosecute and CCTV footage is a strong piece of evidence but raw footage alone may prove to be inadequate.
CCTV footage have its own problems, like the image quality of the footage, CCTV does not record the sound, blurry footage, whether CCTV camera was in proper working condition or not, etc. It is presumably safe to say that CCTV footage recording is also not fully reliable and it cannot be blindly relied.
βWork of Forensic starts from here: When the quality of the footage is poor, it can be very difficult to accurately identify the person in the image. Facial mapping is a technique which can be used to identify the subject of the CCTV recording by comparing facial proportions and the distances between their features to a known image of a suspect. The findings of facial mapping can offer an indication of how likely it is that the person in the known image and the person in the CCTV image are the same.
βIf the CCTV images do not show the suspectβs face, gait analysis can be used to identify them. Gait analysis is a forensic technique which involves tracking the unique way the subject of the recording walks and comparing it to a live suspect to verify whether they are likely to be the same person.
