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NEW DELHI: A special court hearing the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case was on Friday told by the railways that it cannot provide the CCTV footage of the platform from where one of the accused claimed to have left Delhi in a train prior to the night of the incident. Additional sessions judge Yogesh Khanna had yesterday directed the Northern Railways to produce the CCTV footage of December 15, 2012, in the court after accused Akshay Thakur sought that the footage of New Delhi Railway Station be ordered to establish that he had left Delhi on that day by Maha Bodhi Express. However, the railway authority told the court that it only preserves the CCTV footage for 30 days, so it cannot provide the same. "In pursuance of my order on July 18 for procuring of CCTV footage of the platform departure of Maha Bodhi Express. Railway Police Force (RPF) have not preserved such records as such is done for only 30 days," the judge, while referring the report from railway authority, said. Besides this, the recording of statement of the defence witnesses on behalf of Pawan Gupta did not take place due to failure of his counsel Vivek Sharma to turn up with witnesses.