According to the leader of the police, it will help strengthen the application e-suacshaya to strengthen the chain of binding and the admissibility of evidence. | Photo Credit: Istock/Getty Images
The new mobile phone app, called e-Sakshaya, will soon be introduced to the police staff to collect audiovisual evidence, record scenes or witnesses, and create unchanging SID packets (secure, geo-marked, time-marked evidence with hash verification). According to the leading policeman, this will strengthen the chain of binding and the admissibility of evidence.
The application was developed by the Ministry of the Interior of the Union to capture audio and video recordings and generating hash messages with a time sign. It has a built -in certificate generation system in a prescribed format. This is carried out through the Office for State Records (SCRB) for the use of investigative officers.
The training completed
Each investigative official should record all the evidence of the video, along with sound evidence wherever necessary, and photographs, as required according to Bharatiya Nagarik Surraksha Sanhit, 2023, the policeman said. The application is loaded in mobile phones of all investigative officials, including the main constables and inspectors. They were all trained in using the application, he added.
The chain block technology is used to ensure data integrity and credibility. The app records videos, photos and witnesses details of the scene of the crime and searches and searches by a police officer. The search and search proceedings would be recorded and handed over to the courts.
Unforeseen situations
Whenever Esakshya is unavailable due to unforeseen situations such as a lack of connectivity, audio-video record should be made by other available means. In such cases, the part and hand -issued by police personnel or videoographers who have recorded a video on their facility and a certificate in Part B should be issued by an expert notified according to Section 329 Bharatiya Nagarik Surraksha Sanhit.
The investigative official should connect SID packets to the first number/general diary number (GD) and the case number (CNR) number (CNR). The evidence, as soon as it is recorded, would go to the judges concerned and the courts may display evidence in the Information System/Sakshya Portal in the interconnected criminal judiciary (ICJS), the officials said.
ICJS has been established to increase the more efficient system of providing justice by integrating the main parts of the criminal judiciary: the police (criminal and criminal monitoring network and systems), courts (e-Courts), prison (e-mails), forensic laboratories (e-fornsic) and prosecution.
Published – July 20, 2025 22:03
