Alleging that there was a “full collapse” of regulation and order within the metropolis, AAP convenor and former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday wrote to Union House Minister Amit Shah searching for time to debate the problem.
Delhi, Kejriwal alleged, had turn out to be the “crime and extortion capital of the world” as statistics put it atop an inventory of cities with probably the most homicide circumstances and the worst amongst 19 metros so far as ladies’s security is anxious. He additionally flagged bomb threats in faculties turning into an everyday characteristic and a 350 per cent rise in drug circumstances.
“I’m writing to you because the accountability of regulation and order in Delhi lies with you because the House Minister of the nation. However I’m unhappy to state that Delhi is now referred to as the capital of crime each within the nation and overseas,” the AAP chief said within the letter.
“Whereas crimes in opposition to ladies in Delhi are rising with pace, extortion gangs, and gangsters have turn out to be lively in every bylane… Criminals have turn out to be so fearless nowadays that incidents of daylight shootings, homicide, abduction…are being perpetrated in broad daylight,” he added.
During the last six months, Kejriwal alleged, greater than 300 metropolis faculties and faculties in addition to 100 hospitals, malls, and the airport had obtained bomb threats. When faculties had been evacuated in response to bomb threats, what had been kids and their mother and father anticipated to really feel, he requested.
“Why are these individuals who concern false threats every day not being arrested? Are you able to think about how kids and their mother and father really feel after they’re despatched house due to bomb threats? At present, every mother or father and little one in Delhi resides below the phobia of bomb threats,” he alleged.
“…Delhi is on the prime spot amongst 19 metro cities in terms of crime in opposition to ladies and homicide. Drug-related crimes have gone up by 350% since 2019,” he additionally alleged.
Flagging what he alleged was a way of insecurity amongst ladies and the enterprise neighborhood, Kejriwal stated the folks of Delhi had begun asking why they didn’t deserve the alternative when it got here to the town’s regulation and order scenario.
Demanding his intervention within the matter because the Delhi Police was below his ambit, Kejriwal stated, “The scenario could be very dangerous Mr House Minister. We have to rise above politics and repair Delhi’s regulation and order scenario instantly. I request you to provide me a few of your precious time on the earliest so I can apprise you of the scenario.”
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