Zee Media Bureau
New Delhi: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday asked Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde to
suspend four police officials for allegedly not conducting a raid without warrant ordered by Law Minister Somnath Bharti.
According to news report, Kejriwal has now set a deadline and have said if no action is being taken against the said personnel till Monday, 10 am, all Aam Aami Party (AAP) ministers will sit on a `dharna` outside the Home Ministry.
Late Wednesday, Bharti had a heated tiff with Delhi police officials when he on his own initiative raided a house in south Delhi on suspicion that a narcotics and sex den was being run by some foreign nationals from the premises.
Kejriwal in a press conference had said, “Delhi Police is highly compromised. We are demanding... we are warning Delhi Police.”
Delhi CM had asked the Delhi police to suspend four officers who had refused to act on Bharti`s instructions, against sex and drug gangs and in a case of burning a woman.
Meanwhile, Delhi Minister Manish Sisodoa said today that they will `fix` the police even if the force did not come under their jurisdiction.
Observing that the crime rate in the national capital was `very high`, Kejriwal today demanded that Delhi Police be brought under Delhi government as Delhiites wanted answers from the force for every crime that took place in the city.
"People come to us demanding answers whenever a crime takes place. They do not look for the (Union) home minister. So, it is high time that Delhi Police was handed over to Delhi government," Kejriwal told reporters here following a meeting with Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde.
He said that, if required, the security of the NDMC area and Lutyens` Zone may be controlled by the Centre, but stressed that the law and order duties for the rest of the city should be handed over to Delhi government.
Delhi Police is under the administrative control of the Home Ministry.
In an another case, Women and Child Development Minister Rakhi Birla had gone to Safdarjung Hospital on Wednesday night to meet a 24-year-old woman who was allegedly set on fire by her in-laws.
Birla alleged that when she went to meet the station house officer of Sagarpur police station in west Delhi, to find out details of the case, the officer was missing.
Both the AAP leaders, Birla and Bharti then had a bad verbal-spat with the Delhi police officers.
Following to both the incidents, Kejriwal on Thursday backed both of it`s leaders and in a press conference in a very strong pitch asked the Centre to take action against the Delhi Police in both the cases.
Delhi CM held the press conference with Bharti and Birla sitting alongside him.
Speaking more like an activist he was, Kejriwal called the Delhi Police "highly compromised" and demanded the suspension of four officers for allegedly refusing to act against sex and drug gangs and the burning of a woman.
"We are demanding ... we are warning Delhi Police," Kejriwal told the media, using unusually harsh language for a chief minister. "Delhi Police is highly compromised."
He demanded the suspension of the station house officers (SHO) of Sagarpur and Malviya Nagar police stations and two assistant commissioners of police.
The comment followed the gang-rape of a Danish woman in Delhi. The woman was assaulted near the New Delhi railway station.
As Delhi is not a full-fledged state, Delhi Police does not report to the city government. It is controlled by the Union Home Ministry.
