Overview
- The Allahabad High Court, which on Monday tasked the CBI’s Ghaziabad anti-corruption unit with finding lost recordings, set a 60‑day deadline and listed the case for August 10.
- The bench rebuked the National Human Rights Commission for closing the matter without an independent probe and for relying on the police narrative.
- The judges acknowledged the High Court’s own 16‑year delay and said it likely let officials hide traces that now block access to key footage.
- Citing the postmortem, the court pointed to a knot mark and fractured tracheal rings that fit strangulation more than hanging, countering the police claim of a belt suicide in the lockup.
- CBI’s mandate stays narrow with no FIR for now, a step meant to rebuild the record in a PIL by rights group AALI over the death of Nahar Singh, who had a 40% physical disability.