SHC calls in report over missing airport CCTV footage

Karachi
The Airports Security Force (ASF) was directed by the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday to submit a detailed statement along with a certificate of the airport’s surveillance company to endorse its claim that CCTV cameras installed at the airport automatically erase data after a period of 25 days.
While hearing a mysterious disappearance case of a man, Mirza Saud Ali Baig, filed by his spouse, Wajeeha, the court directed the ASF official to ratify the claim.
The missing man’s wife had submitted in her plea that her husband, an architect working in a Dubai-based private construction company was deported by the authorities on September 1, but was taken into custody by the personnel of the law enforcement agencies from the Jinnah International Airport soon after his plane landed.
His whereabouts had since not been disclosed by the LEAs. The petitioner requested the court to direct the authorities to produce her husband before the court along with the details of the charges he was being held against.
The ASF’s IT Department’s in-charge had alleged that CCTV cameras installed at the airport did not have the capacity to store surveillance data for more than 25 days, and automatically erased them.