Supreme Court seeks suggestions on ambit of high-powered committee to investigate police excesses during NEET protests | Updates
The Supreme Court of India is deliberating on the formation of a high-powered committee to investigate allegations of police excesses during NEET protests. The court is also considering separate hearings regarding the use of facial recognition systems by law enforcement.
Why it matters
The case touches on critical tensions between public order, police accountability, and the right to privacy in the context of surveillance technology.
CJI says notice is issued in all fresh petitions and applications. He requests advocates to submit suggestions by evening on the ambit of issues the high-powered committee needs to examine. The Bench rises for lunch.
Advocate Hariharan says that the issue regarding the use of facial recognition systems by the police during the protests needs to be heard separately. Hariharan says the right to privacy has been violated.
Senior advocate Menaka Guruswamy says private companies are used to store the data from FRS. Justice Bagchi said the FRS issue would heard separately. He says it has been examined on the question of proportionality and not on Article 21.
SG Mehta says FRS only captures hardened criminals already on NCRB, not ordinary people. Advocate Hariharan says they cannot do it at all. The data of others are also retained, he says.
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