The Closed Circuit
A surveillance procurement trail that ended at a shell address.
New Delhi·By R. Okonkwo & Asha Verghese·Delhi desk
Ten thousand cameras, one integrator, and a parent company whose only other filing was its own incorporation. We visited the registered address. It was a locked room above a photocopy shop, and the neighbours had never seen it opened.
What it changed
Contract cancelled; procurement disclosure norms tightened.
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