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Despite Rs 27-cr upgrade, CCTVs offer poor visuals

While several cameras at CST are non functional, the ones that do work deliver poor quality images and are incapable of zooming and identifying the faces of suspects

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It’s been nearly four years since the 26/11 terror attacks shook the city, but the quality of security at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) is almost the same as it was before the attack. After the 48-hour ordeal in 2008 that left the city aghast, foolproof security systems were proposed to be installed at important railway stations, including CST, at a total cost of Rs 27 crore.


Blurred vision: u00a0Sangeeta, the four-year-old girl who was kidnapped from CST station last month could have been traced earlier, but the clarity of the cameras was so bad that her captor could not be identified. File pic

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