{"id":229044,"date":"2025-01-31T21:08:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T21:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/preserve-cctv-recordings-of-polling-supreme-court-to-eci\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T21:08:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T21:08:37","slug":"preserve-cctv-recordings-of-polling-supreme-court-to-eci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/preserve-cctv-recordings-of-polling-supreme-court-to-eci\/","title":{"rendered":"Preserve CCTV recordings of polling: Supreme Court to ECI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-117802005,imgsize-48978.cms?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Preserve CCTV recordings of polling: Supreme Court to ECI\" title=\"Preserve CCTV recordings of polling: Supreme Court to ECI\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-brcount=\"6\">New Delhi: The <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Supreme Court<\/a> on Friday directed the <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/election-commission-of-india\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Election Commission of India<\/a> (ECI) to ensure that video recordings of the polling are not erased during the pendency of a plea challenging the poll body&#8217;s decision to increase the number of voters per <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/polling-station\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">polling station<\/a>. <!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=toppotime:2-->The development took place during the resumed hearing of a <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/pil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PIL<\/a> challenging the ECI&#8217;s communication(s) whereby the maximum number of electors per polling station has been increased from 1,200 to 1,500. After the counsel for the ECI sought time to file a counter, the SC granting the request, directed the ECI to ensure that the video recordings of the polling are not erased during the pendency of the matter. <\/p>\n<p>Granting the ECI permission to file its counter affidavit within three weeks, a division bench headed by Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna ordered &#8220;we find it appropriate to direct that the 1st Respondent shall maintain the CCTVs from which the videos are recorded as they were doing earlier&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=botpotime:1--><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/preserve-cctv-recordings-of-polling-supreme-court-to-eci\/articleshow\/117802005.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to ensure that video recordings of the polling are not erased during the pendency of a plea challenging the poll body&#8217;s decision to increase the number of voters per polling station. The development took place during the resumed hearing of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-117802005,imgsize-48978.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[12867,179444,1625,3130,2091,15269,8082,56964,31220,11494,1624,1617],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229046,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229044\/revisions\/229046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}