REF: TLP-CCTV-2025/0321-REC
CCTV FOOTAGE LOG — RECEPTION HALL
Taj Lake Palace | Camera RC-02 (Ballroom) | 21 March 2025
🔴 EVIDENCE
Taj Lake Palace Security — CCTV Operations
| Time | Subject | Status |
|---|
| 22:00–23:07 | Deepa Singhania | Visible in reception — various locations |
| 23:08–23:54 | Deepa Singhania | NOT IN FRAME — 46-minute absence |
| 23:54 | Deepa Singhania | Returns to main reception area |
| 23:20–23:55 | Kavitha Rathore | Stage performance + visible in hall ✓ |
| 22:45–00:30 | Sunita Verma | Event desk area — continuous ✓ |
| 22:30–23:45 | Rakesh Sinha | Bar area — visible ✓ |
| 22:45–23:54 | Arjun Singhania | Reception (photos + video confirm) ✓ |
CRITICAL: Deepa is absent from CCTV for exactly 46 minutes — the window during which she accessed Suite 214 and planted the poison. She returned to the reception at 23:54, approximately 30 minutes before the TOD window. All other suspects are accounted for.
INVESTIGATOR NOTE (added 27 March 2025): Camera 2B footage (E16, submitted later) places a figure matching Deepa in the east corridor of Floor 2 from 23:04. Camera RC-02 covers the ballroom floor and main entrance — not the south-side exit passage leading to the Floor 2 stairwell. The subject likely exited via that passage at approximately 23:03–23:05, outside RC-02's sightline, before appearing on Camera 2B at 23:04. The absence timestamp of 23:08 reflects the last confirmed positive frame on RC-02 — not the actual departure time. These two data sources are consistent.