Feedback from the cameras will be monitored in a control room and a team has also been set up to oversee its operations. (Representative Photo/Getty Images)
Officials now want to be more transparent about autopsy procedures in morgues by installing cameras
Days after a video of a couple getting intimate in a post-mortem room in Noida went viral, the health department has installed 12 CCTV cameras at the post-mortem room in Sector 94.
The video raised concerns about security breaches and the potential for evidence to be tampered with, as the morgue regularly receives between five and seven bodies a day, including those related to criminal cases.
talking times of indiaChief Marketing Officer Jais Lal, who oversees the autopsy room operations, claimed that cameras have been strategically installed at the entry and exit points of the freezer, on the outer walls of the freezer and around the perimeter of the freezer. area. Lal said feedback from the cameras will be monitored at a control room and a team has also been formed to oversee its operations.
Officials now hope to provide greater transparency during autopsies at the morgue by installing cameras. Morgue officials said camera footage could be examined for evidence if any issues arise. Two guards have also been deployed at the morgue since Monday.
“After the video came to light, we submitted a formal request to the Noida authorities for deployment of two more guards,” Lal further said.
Noida police arrested three people after the video went viral on social media. The video shows a woman sitting in what appears to be a freezer with a man standing in front of her. Moments later, another man recorded the scene on his smartphone, capturing them in a compromising position.
according to a toy According to reports, the man caught in trouble in the video is Sher Singh, a mortuary sweeper. The police have detained him along with Parvendra, the cleaner who recorded the video, and Bhanu, the driver who was present when the incident took place.
The police have registered a case under Section 296 of the BNS (any person who commits an obscene act in any public place) and Sections 67 and 67A of the IT Act (publishing or disseminating obscene or sexually explicit material in electronic form). The persons were produced before a local court and are currently in judicial custody. The identity of the woman in the video has not been revealed.
