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The videos, allegedly shot between September and December last year, claims to show policemen at 20 traffic points in the city demanding bribes from Blueline drivers after threatening to book the owners on charges of rash driving.
Disposing off the petition, Chief Justice M K Sharma and Justice Reva Khetrapal directed the petitioner, Chetan Prakash, to submit the CDs before the registrar of High Court and send copies to the Home Ministry and the Delhi Police Commissioner.
“The CD shows the clear picture of how the accidents by Blueline buses are taking place in the Capital is not just due to drivers’ mistake,” Prakash’s counsel Manish Khanna said. The film shows how the cops, too, are at fault — “by taking money to become silent on rash driving”.
Khanna said Prakash had shot the footage in cooperation with a Blueline bus owner, who had taken the complaint to him.
Prakash earlier conducted sting operations on the alleged nexus between police officials and liquor mafia in the Capital. His videos resulted in the suspension of 25 police officials last year.
About the new sting operation, Khanna told the court that it was shot at places such as Moolchand, Dwarka, Ashram, Janakpuri — “some of the busiest intersections in the city where a major force of the Blueline fleet is running.”
“If a private citizen can expose all this corruption why cannot the Vigilance Department of the Delhi Police do the same?” he contended.


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