The lensmen of the Delhi police crime team “do not know what to click and from which angle,” said a city court while emphasising the need for vigorous training to ensure that their “highly unprofessional” work may not lead to “serious miscarriage of justice.”
Lamenting the poor work of photographers in clicking pictures at a crime scene and the body of the victim of a 2007 murder case, the court asked the city police chief to “formulate a specific training course for photographers and other crime team members in consonance with the best practices adopted by pivotal investigating agencies the world over.”
Additional sessions judge Surinder S. Rathi made the critical remark against the police photographers while acquitting six persons for want of sufficient evidence and due to poor probe.
The court noted none of the five photographs on record helped the trial as the crime team had not taken even a single photograph of the actual site and of the deceased showing the details of the injuries suffered by him.
“As far as the photographing the spot of assault is concerned, I see that Delhi police photographers are so poorly trained that they absolutely do not know as to what to click and from which angle,” ASJ Rathi said.
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Ex-employer, 2 others arrested for killing man
Age Correspondent
New Delhi, Feb. 16
A 29-year-old man, his brother-in-law and friend allegedly murdered his former collection agent after he threatened to create problem in his brother’s marriage. Sonu, Kalu and Samod were arrested for allegedly murdering Vikas Kaushik at his Acharya Niketan residence on Tuesday.
According to the police, Vikas worked as a collection agent for Sonu, who lent money on interest, and he started bullying people while recovering the money.
“He fell in bad company and got addicted to alcohol and developed a poor reputation in the area. So, Sonu engaged another recovery agent and Vikas was left without any means of livelihood,” a senior police official said.
Vikas had taken a loan of `50,000 from the market which he was finding difficult to repay. He started demanding `50,000 from Sonu to repay the same and threatened him several times. Sonu’s brother Manish is to get married on February 25 and Vikas had threatened of causing disturbance during the marriage.
Frustrated with the repeated threats, Sonu, his brother-in-law Kalu and friend Samod killed Vikas.