Court pulls up Delhi Police for inaction

NEW DELHI: A Delhi Court on Friday asked the Delhi Police to seize the CCTV cameras installed at the 5th floor of the Delhi Secretariat, where the office of Chief Secretary is situated.

The court has also pulled up the police for its inaction over the alleged assault on minister Imran Hussain at Delhi Secretariat. It is the same floor (5th) where the office of the Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash is located.

Last week, the city court said the CCTV footage prima-facie shows that the minister was also surrounded by a "herd of people and thereafter criminal force was used against him as well as his staff". "Prima facie, I found merits in the contentions made by the counsel for the applicant (Minister) as the contents of the FIR show that the minister was going to his office when the alleged incident of criminal restrain, use of criminal force, causing hurt and damaging the belongings, took place.

Environment Minister Hussain was mobbed by over a hundred 'officials and staff', hours after Chief Secretary Prakash was allegedly manhandled at the chief minister's residence. Later, police had to escort the minister to his office, sources said.

The court had on February 27 asked the Delhi Police to file the report after Hussain approached it for preserving the CCTV footage of the alleged incident.

Hussain has lodged a complaint with the police claiming that a day after the alleged assault on the Chief Secretary, he was mobbed by the officials and staff of Delhi government who raised slogans and prevented him from taking the elevator to his 6th floor office at the Secretariat.

Fifteen days after the assault on Minister Hussain, Delhi Police have not detained any employee.

A senior advocate said that the Delhi Police works at the behest of the Centre.

However, the minister Imran Hussain has lodged a complaint with the Delhi Police claiming that a day after the alleged assault on the Chief Secretary Prakash, he was mobbed by the officials and staff of Delhi government who raised slogans and prevented him from taking the elevator to his 6th floor office at the Secretariat.