The Delhi High Court has asked the police to run on a trial basis for two weeks a facial recognition software (FRS), developed by a private entity, which can help trace and rescue missing children.
A bench of justices S Muralidhar and I S Mehta said the test run of the FRS by the Delhi Police should start from February 20 and not later. The software is expected to help trace and rescue the missing children.
The high court’s direction came after the Centre expressed its inability to immediately put into motion such a software.
The Government had said that the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing was developing an FRS in West Bengal, but did not give a timeline as to when it would be completed and put into operation.
To this, the bench had said, “Waiting for the perfect software to be developed with an open-ended time line does not serve the purpose of addressing the issue of missing children on an urgent basis.”