June 8, 2007
CCTV Images, Hannah's Mobile Did Kohli In
By Rana Ajit
New Delhi
It was the elaborate network of closed-circuit television (CCTV)
cameras at road intersections that helped British police zero in on
Maninder Pal Singh Kohli for the 2003 rape and murder of teenager
Hannah Foster and also helped them win a Delhi court order Friday
for extradition of the British Indian.
The CCTVs and the powerful mobile telephony network in the country
provided police with a string of irrefutable evidence against Kohli
for the murder of 17-year-old Hannah at Southampton in England.
Hannah was waiting for a bus to her home when she was dragged by
Kohli into his van, a refrigerated vehicle belonging to a food
company that he used to drive to deliver food at various places.
According to details mentioned by Additional Chief Metropolitan
Magistrate Kamini Lau in her order to extradite Kohli, the CCTV
captured images of his van at various locations at different given
times while a mobile phone carried by Hannah gave her exact
whereabouts at those crucial points of time.
Lau noted that the various whereabouts of Hannah, as determined from
her mobile telephone, invariably coincided with the location of
Kohli's van, caught on the CCTV camera.
For example, the court noted, soon after her abduction on March 14,
2003, Hannah had made an emergency call from her mobile phone at 11
p.m.
This call helped British police identify her location near South
Stoneham House in Wessex Lane in Southampton, a major port city on
the south coast of England. And an 11 p.m. visual, caught on a CCTV
installed by the Road Management System for Europe (ROMANSE) on
Stoneham Way showed that a vehicle similar to the one used by Kohli
to abduct Foster had passed that area.
And yet again an automatic number plate recognition camera,
installed at Stoneham Way, showed the presence of Kohli's vehicle in
the same area where Hannah's location had been traced through the
mobile telephone network.
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