The National University of Juridical Sciences is preparing a CCTV policy that will limit access to the footage and prevent its misuse, officials said today.

Women students of the Bypass law school have alleged in a letter to vice-chancellor P. Ishwara Bhat that they are being "hounded and harassed" by a section of male employees who have "unrestricted access" to the footage of CCTV cameras installed on the campus.

Metro today reported about the letter to the VC, who denied that the students were being harassed. He, however, told this newspaper yesterday that in response to the students' demand a committee had been set up to prepare a draft CCTV policy.

"A faculty committee has been constituted to look into the matter of installation of CCTV cameras and issues raised therein related to right to privacy," Saurabh Bhattacharjee, a teacher of the university and a member of the panel, said.

"It must be noted that the 2015 UGC guidelines on safety of students on and off campuses of higher education recommend that CCTV cameras be installed at the entry points of hostels. Therefore, the university has a legitimate security interest in installing CCTV cameras. But the policy must provide a robust framework to prevent any misuse of camera footage."

The Student Juridical Association, the students' body of the institute, had recently written to the VC: "...In the absence of any policy governing, regulating and ensuring privacy and related concerns of students with respect to these cameras, we find such surveillance to be an affront to our rights."