Our eyes in the sky - the nearly 5,000 CCTV cameras across Mumbai - have gone night blind. Night crimes have become difficult to crack because the CCTV footage gets washed out in the headlights and tail lights of the lakhs of cars in the city.

Many of the CCTV cameras are of little use to the police, because as soon as motorists switch on their headlamps or backlights, the cameras are blinded by the light. Even images that have been captured on camera are of little use, as the quality is very poor.