“The district administration and the police had not requested the images at the time. Now, after a month, we cannot provide it, ”said the hospital’s chief medical superintendent, Indra Veer Singh. He added that the hospital would have saved him if someone had asked. “Old images are removed every seven days and new images are recorded over them.”
The CBI team had visited the hospital to record statements from doctors and examine evidence. The footage from the first day would be crucial, a police officer said. A source added that the CBI team wanted to review the images and determine when the victim was admitted, when she was transferred, who treated her and who spoke to her when she was there.
When asked why the police and administration had not searched the images earlier, a police officer said that the hospital “has nothing to do” with the crime-related investigation. “Unless a crime has been committed in the hospital or negligence has been reported, this has no bearing on the criminal investigation. These are unrelated things. That is why the CCTV images were not taken into account. ”
The siblings and the victim’s father, meanwhile, were questioned again by the CBI on Wednesday for approximately seven hours, starting at 11.30 am They were later dropped off at home by local police.
Hours earlier, the victim’s family had demanded that the four defendants in the case be released from Aligarh jail, where they are said to have a lot of “local support.” Hathras Subdivisional Magistrate Anjali Gangwar He said the request would be considered “by senior officials.”
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