SurveillanceCritical
Indian Police Allegedly Tortured and Killed Innocent Man Following Facial Misidentification
- Occurred
- Feb 2, 2023
- Published
- Feb 18, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A resident in Medak, India died allegedly due to custodial torture by the local police, who misidentified him as a suspect in a theft case using facial recognition.
Developers
- Unknown
Deployers
- Telangana Police
- Medak Police
Harmed parties
- Mohammed Khadeer
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Facial recognition misidentification led to custodial torture and death, directly implicating surveillance technology in lethal harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8