Wankhede cameras offer no clue in case
26 Jun 2014 11:14 PM GMT
With CCTV footage of Wankhede Stadium’s Garvare Pavilion shedding no light on alleged molestation of Bollywood actress Preity Zinta by her former boyfriend and industrialist Ness Wadia, investigators may have to depend on witnesses to take forward the case, police said today.
‘There were 172 rotating CCTV cameras inside the Wankhede ground and five CCTVs installed at Garware pavilion. The examination of these five CCTV footages did not provide any evidence that would help us in the probe,’ said a police officer privy to the probe. ‘The five CCTV cameras which we thought would give some crucial leads have neither captured any argument nor any scuffle between the two,’ the officer said.
Zinta had filed a police complaint on June 12 alleging that Wadia outraged her modesty at the stadium on 30 May during an IPL match between Kings XI Punjab and Chennai Super Kings.
Wadia, who co-owns Kings XI Punjab with Zinta and others, has rubbished the allegations as ‘false and baseless’.
Meanwhile, Zinta, whose supplementary statement was recorded on Tuesday, has given a list of 14 names to the police, including that of a foreigner named Jean, as among those who were witness to the incident. The foreign national will also be asked to record his statement, if needed, police said.
The probe team is still awaiting video camera footages from Sony, which had telecast rights of the match, to throw some light on the alleged incident.
‘There were 172 rotating CCTV cameras inside the Wankhede ground and five CCTVs installed at Garware pavilion. The examination of these five CCTV footages did not provide any evidence that would help us in the probe,’ said a police officer privy to the probe. ‘The five CCTV cameras which we thought would give some crucial leads have neither captured any argument nor any scuffle between the two,’ the officer said.
Zinta had filed a police complaint on June 12 alleging that Wadia outraged her modesty at the stadium on 30 May during an IPL match between Kings XI Punjab and Chennai Super Kings.
Wadia, who co-owns Kings XI Punjab with Zinta and others, has rubbished the allegations as ‘false and baseless’.
Meanwhile, Zinta, whose supplementary statement was recorded on Tuesday, has given a list of 14 names to the police, including that of a foreigner named Jean, as among those who were witness to the incident. The foreign national will also be asked to record his statement, if needed, police said.
The probe team is still awaiting video camera footages from Sony, which had telecast rights of the match, to throw some light on the alleged incident.
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