Police station not prohibited place under OSA, Video recording on premises not offence: Bombay High Court

Mumbai, Oct. 29 (PTI) The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court held that a police station is not included as a restricted place as defined under the Official Secrets Act, and hence videotaping inside a police station is not an offense.

In July this year, a division bench comprising Justices Manish Pidale and Valmiki Menezes quashed a case registered against one Ravindra Upadhyay under the Official Secrets Act (OSA) for recording a video inside a police station in March 2018.

Note: Police station not prohibited place under OSA, video recording on premises, not Offence: Bombay High Court

Police station not prohibited place under OSA, video recording on premises not offence: Bombay High Court

The bench in its order referred to Section 3 and Section 2(8) of the OSA regarding spying in prohibited places and noted that a police station is not specified as a prohibited place in the Act.

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