Indore: The Madhya Pradesh police regulations direct cops to maintain CCTV footage recordings of three years, thereafter the recordings can be deleted only after review, the Indore bench of high court was told on Monday.A rejoinder was submitted before the division bench of Justice PK Jaiswal and Justice SK Awasthi in the petition challenging the protest outside high court gates on March 1, 2017, restricting entry of advocates and litigants in the court and causing traffic congestion. The petition has been filed by representatives of Congress, Aam Aadmi Party, Communist Party of India and Communist Party of India (Marxist)The petitioner has referred to the Madhya Pradesh police regulations which mandate for weeding out of CCTV recordings only after three years and after a review and approval of circle inspector. “The state has not placed on record any law allowing them to delete the footage after 30 days,” advocate Anand Mohan Mathur representing the petitioner said.The petitioner also countered the state’s stand that the alleged protest never happened, since there was no complaint of it before any authority. The petitioner submitted in their rejoinder that the protest was covered by media and that if there was no such alleged protest, the police must submit the daily diary maintained by them at concerned police station.“It has also been stated in the petition that Tukoganj police station in charge has not been made respondent to the petition. I have submitted that if the state government has been made respondent, all the police station in charges are automatically pleaded party,” Mathur added.The matter will be heard again by the court in December 2018.

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