Security of Delhi has been left to God: AAP
17 Jan 2014 6:03 AM IST
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said Delhi Police are ‘highly compromised’, and if any crime is prevented in the national capital, it is not because of the police force, but rather God’s grace. ‘The security of the people has been left to God, and whatever little crime incidents are not happening is not because of Delhi Police, but despite them,’ Kejriwal said after the recent incidents of grave crimes against women, including the rape on Tuesday of a 51-year-old Danish tourist by a gang of vagabonds.
Kejriwal said he would meet police commissioner BS Bassi along with lt governor Najeeb Jung to analyse the cause of so many rapes in the capital. On Thursday, he also asked the police to suspend four officers for allegedly refusing to act against sex and drug gangs and in a case of burning of a woman. ‘We are demanding... we are warning Delhi Police,’ Kejriwal told the media. He demanded the suspension of the station house officers (SHO) of the Sagarpur and Malviya Nagar police stations and two assistant commissioners of police.
The Sagarpur SHO, he said, did not arrest members of a family who allegedly set their daughter-in-law on fire. Kejriwal accused the SHO of Malviya Nagar of complicity with a bunch of foreigners in south Delhi allegedly involved in prostitution and drugs. ‘People are not going to be mute spectators to what is going on,’ he said.
The chief minister denied the charge that his ministers were interfering in the work of Delhi police, saying it was the duty of the ministers to speak and act if they witnessed crime.
‘Delhi has security not because of Delhi Police,’ he said, demanding to know why there were so many incidents of rape in the national capital compared to other parts of India. The war of sorts between the AAP government and the Delhi police started on Wednesday when in an unprecedented scene, a senior police officer was caught on the camera trying to teach rules to Delhi’s law minister on the streets at mid night. ‘You are not letting us work. Let us do our job,’ said Harpal Singh, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Malviya Nagar to Somnath Bharti who asked police officers to raid a building where a sex and drug racket was allegedly being run by Nigerian nationals. According to minister, the area, Khirki Extension, falls within his assembly constituency Malviya Nagar and the residents had asked him to stop illegal activities in the area.
‘The police was reluctant to raid the house and nab the culprits. The station house officer of the area Vijay Pal refused to enter in the building citing the need of a search warrant. He let the criminals slip by even as two people nabbed them,’ added Bharti who had come at the spot with his supporters. The minister had a hot argument with a Delhi Police ACP and other officers.
‘The racket is being run in full connivance with police,’ Bharti alleged. The police have started a probe and will report to Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung. In another such case in the same night, women and child development minister Rakhi Birla was also allegedly mistreated by Delhi police officers when she pressed for the arrest of culprits who burnt alive by a woman.
Kejriwal said he would meet police commissioner BS Bassi along with lt governor Najeeb Jung to analyse the cause of so many rapes in the capital. On Thursday, he also asked the police to suspend four officers for allegedly refusing to act against sex and drug gangs and in a case of burning of a woman. ‘We are demanding... we are warning Delhi Police,’ Kejriwal told the media. He demanded the suspension of the station house officers (SHO) of the Sagarpur and Malviya Nagar police stations and two assistant commissioners of police.
The Sagarpur SHO, he said, did not arrest members of a family who allegedly set their daughter-in-law on fire. Kejriwal accused the SHO of Malviya Nagar of complicity with a bunch of foreigners in south Delhi allegedly involved in prostitution and drugs. ‘People are not going to be mute spectators to what is going on,’ he said.
The chief minister denied the charge that his ministers were interfering in the work of Delhi police, saying it was the duty of the ministers to speak and act if they witnessed crime.
‘Delhi has security not because of Delhi Police,’ he said, demanding to know why there were so many incidents of rape in the national capital compared to other parts of India. The war of sorts between the AAP government and the Delhi police started on Wednesday when in an unprecedented scene, a senior police officer was caught on the camera trying to teach rules to Delhi’s law minister on the streets at mid night. ‘You are not letting us work. Let us do our job,’ said Harpal Singh, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Malviya Nagar to Somnath Bharti who asked police officers to raid a building where a sex and drug racket was allegedly being run by Nigerian nationals. According to minister, the area, Khirki Extension, falls within his assembly constituency Malviya Nagar and the residents had asked him to stop illegal activities in the area.
‘The police was reluctant to raid the house and nab the culprits. The station house officer of the area Vijay Pal refused to enter in the building citing the need of a search warrant. He let the criminals slip by even as two people nabbed them,’ added Bharti who had come at the spot with his supporters. The minister had a hot argument with a Delhi Police ACP and other officers.
‘The racket is being run in full connivance with police,’ Bharti alleged. The police have started a probe and will report to Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung. In another such case in the same night, women and child development minister Rakhi Birla was also allegedly mistreated by Delhi police officers when she pressed for the arrest of culprits who burnt alive by a woman.
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