Days after a video of a couple getting intimate inside an autopsy house in Noida went viral, the health department has installed 12 CCTV cameras inside the facility located at Sector 94.
The video sparked concerns over a security lapse and potential tampering with evidence, as the mortuary regularly receives five to seven corpses daily, including those related to criminal cases.
Speaking to The Times of India, Additional CMO Jais Lal, who is in-charge of looking over the operations at the autopsy house claimed that the cameras have been placed in a strategic manner at the entry and exit points of the freezer rooms, along the exterior walls of the place and other accessible areas. The camera feeds will be monitored from a control room and a team has also been formed to oversee it’s operations, Lal said.
Officials now expect more transparency in conducting of the autopsy procedures inside the mortuary with the installation of the cameras. Incase of any issues, the camera footage can be checked for evidence, the officials at the mortuary said. Since Monday, two guards have also been deployed at the mortuary.
“A formal request was submitted to the Noida Authority for the deployment of two additional guards after the video had surfaced,” Lal further said.
Noida police arrested three people after the video went viral on social media. The video showed a woman seated on what appears to be a deep freezer, with a man standing in front of her. Moments later, another man, who was recording the scene on his smartphone, captures them in a compromising position.
According to a TOI report, the man caught on video in the compromising situation is Sher Singh, a sweeper at the mortuary. The police have taken him into custody along with Parvendra, the cleaner who recorded the video, and Bhanu, the driver who was present during the incident.
The police have filed a case under BNS Section 296 (anyone who does any obscene act in any public place) and Information Technology Act sections 67 and 67A (publishing or transmitting obscene or sexually explicit material in electronic form). The men have been produced before a local court and are currently in judicial custody. The identity of the woman in the video was not disclosed.
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