New Delhi

24 August 2018 01:43 IST

There is only 2% match, HC told

The city government told the Delhi High Court on Thursday that the accuracy of facial recognition software being used by the city police to trace missing persons is only 2% and “not good”.

Missing women

Delhi Police counsel Rahul Mehra made the submission before a Bench of Justices S. Muralidhar and Vinod Goel after the court suggested use of facial recognition software to trace some of the women who went missing from an illegal placement agency here.

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“The software is not good. There is only 2% match,” Mr. Mehra told the court, which was hearing a habeas corpus plea moved by the brother of one of the missing women.

The status report of the Delhi Police stated that a joint team of revenue and police officers had raided the placement agency in August 2017 and rescued 10 people, including five minors, and arrested a couple and another man who were running it together.

Division Bench

During the course of investigation, it was found that eight women, who were brought here from different parts of the country were still missing, the police told the court

After hearing the brief arguments, the Bench transferred the matter to another Division Bench, which is dealing with a similar issue, in order to avoid multiplicity of proceedings.