Pune:
Strategically installed CCTVs near the blast sites on Junglee Maharaj Road in Pune are not in working condition. These could have provided vital clues to who planted the four bombs within a one kilometre stretch on the busy road, that exploded within 40 minutes last evening.
Of the three CCTVs near two blast sites, one outside the Dena Bank branch is not working and neither is one at the McDonald's outlet outside which a blast occurred. Only the CCTV at the McDonald cash counter was found to be working, police sources have said.
A senior corporator of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), Vika Mathkari, said that after the German Bakery blast of February 2010, it was decided that CCTVs would be installed at 70 strategic locations in the city. The PMC, Mr Mathkari said, had spent about 3.5 crore rupees to install these, but wanted the city police to pay for their maintenance. The corporator alleges that the police had refused to do so and so many of the cameras installed are not working.
The police say they expect to get some clues from CCTV cameras installed at city exits.