Hindi → English transcript

Why was the law regarding CCTVs and the data they contain changed?

Why was a law put in place that allows the Election Commission to destroy CCTV footage…

CCTV footage forty-five days after the election?

What is the need?

The answer given is that it is a question of data.

They took the CCTV footage… the Election Commission decided to destroy the CCTV footage within forty-five days,

and you raised an objection to this.

Your Honor, in Section 81 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, there is a provision.

What is the provision? After a candidate is elected, an election petition can be filed within forty-five days.

After forty-five days, no one can challenge this.

This rule was made in 1991, at that time there was no CCTV footage.

CCTV footage was later added by the Election Commission by changing the rules through a circular.

Now what has the Election Commission done? As for the record of the CCTV footage,

It has been safeguarded under Section 81 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951.

Meaning, it has been aligned.

That after forty-five days, there is no provision for any dispute in the Act at all,

so why keep this CCTV footage after forty-five days?

Now if you do not have even such basic understanding, then what can I do?

There are no injections for understanding that you can just give to dispel delusion.