[sustran] Clean cheat: South Delhi Municipal Corporation Photoshops Delhi road image, judges spot fraud

Vinay Baindur yanivbin at gmail.com
Fri Sep 19 00:15:50 JST 2014


http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/newdelhi/hc-judges-spot-a-fake-in-digital-cleaning-of-dwarka-roads/article1-1265387.aspx


*Clean cheat: Civic body photoshops Delhi road image*,* judges spot
fraud*Soibam
Rocky Singh
<http://www.hindustantimes.com/Search/search.aspx?q=Soibam%20Rocky%20Singh&op=auth>,
Hindustan Times  New Delhi, September 18, 2014


A picture is worth a thousand words, it is said. Well, not if it’s
photoshopped and tries to substitute work instead of just words.

A Delhi high court bench spotted doctored photographs of roads and
pavements in Dwarka wiped digitally cleaned by the agencies to claim they
had acted on complaints by residents about poor civic facilities in the
sub-city. The photographs were submitted before a bench of Justice BD Ahmed
and Justice Siddharth Mridul by the South Delhi Municipal Corporation and
the DDA.

“This is photoshopped. When it comes to technology, I am a novice, but even
I can say it is photoshop. Somebody has tried to brush this up,” the bench
remarked.

[image: http://www.hindustantimes.com/Images/popup/2014/9/1809pg3a.jpg]

Caught red-handed, the counsel representing the SDMC and DDA quickly
scrambled a defence, saying there was no reason for them to smudge the
details as they were working to clean up the areas on their own.

Law student and Dwarka resident Ebbani Aggarwal, who had filed the PIL
seeking a direction to the civic agencies to clean up the area, told the
bench that some work has been done but it was not as clean as the photos
show.

Aggarwal had approached the court, saying the markets, roads, footpaths and
open vacant land and other places in Dwarka ware full of filth, solid waste
and construction material. In her petition, Aggarwal had said that the
sorry state of affairs was a result of tussle between the south body and
the DDA.

Apart from finishing the work before September 30, the next date of
hearing, the court directed the agencies to submit fresh photographs.


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