A woman was allegedly molested on a bus, but when police sought the footage of the on-board camera, they found it didn’t have a recording feature.Many of the cameras installed inside BEST buses do not actually record any footage, a police team investigating a molestation case discovered recently.A female passenger on board a BEST bus was allegedly groped by a man near Chinchpokli on the evening of August 11. The woman then sought help from other passengers to restrain the man and directed the driver to take the bus, which was equipped with a camera, directly to the Kalachowki police station.However, when cops asked for the footage of the alleged incident, the driver and conductor informed them that the camera inside the bus didn’t have a Digital Video Recorder (DVR).The woman did not file a formal complaint as the man had refuted her allegation and, in the absence of the footage, there was no way for her to prove the assault. The police let off the male passenger after noting down his phone number and address.The details of the case were revealed by BEST committee member Kedar Hombalkar during a meeting at the public transport operator’s Colaba headquarters on Thursday. BEST general manager Om Prakash Gupta was also present at the meeting.Hombalkar learnt about the case when the woman called him immediately after the alleged molestation. “I told her to take the bus to the nearest police station, which happened to be Kalachowki,” he said.BEST has a fleet of 4,500 buses, out of which 3,800 are equipped with CCTV cameras. However, many of them reportedly do not have DVRs.“After the bus reached the police station that day, I asked the police to check the security camera footage. The police told me that the camera didn’t have a recorder,” Hombalkar said. “What’s the point of having a camera if it does not capture any footage?”Gupta said of the 3,800 buses equipped with cameras, 1,600 buses do not have the recording feature. The public transport operator was in the process of installing DVRs, he said.“The original deadline for completing work on CCTV cameras was March 14, but it was not met due to some issues. We are now trying to finish the work as soon as possible,” Gupta said.