The Delhi police commissioner has been directed by a court here to order crime investigating teams from all the districts to take photographs of the scenes of crime in landscape mode, instead of just the usual close-up or portrait mode. This is to be done to help courts analyse evidence found on the scene.
Additional sessions judge Pawan Kumar Jain asked the police chief to, ‘issue necessary directions to all crime teams from all districts to take some photographs of the place of occurrence in landscape mode and also send the compliance report to this court within four weeks.’
While acquitting a man in a murder case and noting the inherent defects in photographs taken by the investigating team, the judge said, ‘Generally, crime teams take photographs either in close-up or portrait mode. It never takes the photo of the place of occurrence in landscape mode. If some photographs are to be taken in landscape mode also, it will provide immense help to the courts to appreciate the evidence available at the place of occurrence.
Simultaneously, such photographs shall also minimise the scope of fabrication and manipulation, as done in the present case,’ he said.
Photographs taken in landscape mode cover as much of the scene as possible, as opposed to portrait mode, which focuses on a single object or limited field. The court made the observations, while acquitting Shyano Varghese, of the charge of murdering a woman named Rekha Joy, whose body had been recovered from the basement of a building in Old Rajinder Nagar area here on 14 March, 2012.
Additional sessions judge Pawan Kumar Jain asked the police chief to, ‘issue necessary directions to all crime teams from all districts to take some photographs of the place of occurrence in landscape mode and also send the compliance report to this court within four weeks.’
While acquitting a man in a murder case and noting the inherent defects in photographs taken by the investigating team, the judge said, ‘Generally, crime teams take photographs either in close-up or portrait mode. It never takes the photo of the place of occurrence in landscape mode. If some photographs are to be taken in landscape mode also, it will provide immense help to the courts to appreciate the evidence available at the place of occurrence.
Simultaneously, such photographs shall also minimise the scope of fabrication and manipulation, as done in the present case,’ he said.
Photographs taken in landscape mode cover as much of the scene as possible, as opposed to portrait mode, which focuses on a single object or limited field. The court made the observations, while acquitting Shyano Varghese, of the charge of murdering a woman named Rekha Joy, whose body had been recovered from the basement of a building in Old Rajinder Nagar area here on 14 March, 2012.