The use of CCTV footage is increasingly helping defendants in drug-related cases in Mumbai. In recent cases, the footage has contradicted the prosecution's version of events, leading to acquittals and granting of bail. Lawyers have emphasized the importance of CCTV evidence in exposing false implications and have successfully used it to challenge the credibility of the prosecution's case. The courts have acknowledged the significance of CCTV footage in determining the genuineness of a case and have allowed its submission as evidence when properly obtained.

While the CCTV footage usually helps the prosecution nail the accused, in drug cases, where technical aspects such as search and seizure play a crucial role, it is becoming increasingly helpful in exposing the genuineness of a case

MUMBAI: In August this year, observing that the prosecution’s version that a drugs case accused was arrested at night from Fort in 2019 even as the CCTV footage showed he had been already picked up in the afternoon from Govandi, a special Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) court acquitted Vikram Thakur, a 28-year-old city man, who had spent four years in jail for alleged possession of 200 gram of narcotic drug mephedrone.
Last month, another court granted bail to Shreyas Kenjale, a retired ACP’s son, arrested after the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) alleged that 6.8gm of LSD blots and 300gm of marijuana were recovered from him at his Goregaon flat on June 21, 2021. Relying on...

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