Lights,camera,action: Delhi Police video record protests in city

With an unprecedented number of protests taking place across the city in support of Anna Hazare,the Delhi Police has deployed several cameramen to document the activity and actions of policemen during the agitation.

With an unprecedented number of protests taking place across the city in support of Anna Hazare,the Delhi Police has deployed several cameramen to document the activity and actions of policemen during the agitation.

However,denying that it was to keep the vigil on pro-Hazare marches and protests in the past two days,sources in the Delhi Police described it as routine practice and that they were merely following Supreme Court orders on the issue.

The police has been instructed to film the action that it undertakes and if need be,call for footage from external sources such as private television stations. A senior Delhi Police official said,We have guidelines to videograph all demonstrations. We follow this as a practice always.

Among the numerous news TV crew seen early in the morning on Tuesday at Supreme Enclave in Mayur Vihar Phase 1,Hazares house in Delhi,were Delhi Polices cameramen. As the 75-year-old social activist was taken away by policemen,the two cameramen were seen documenting the events. They functioned under the close scrutiny of police officials present at the spot and were barred from speaking to the media.

The practice continued at protest sites across the city as the police-deployed videographers filmed each move of the demonstrators as well as their police personnel. At India Gate,where several thousand protesters gathered to march to Parliament Street in the evening,the events took place under the watchful eyes of three cameramen,police sources said.

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