Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday wrote a letter to Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena given the recent murders in the national capital. In his letter, Kejriwal also proposed a meeting of his cabinet with the LG and sought directions for police officers to hold joint meetings with elected MLAs, councilors, and Resident Welfare Associations to suggest better ways of reduction of crime in the national capital.
“I am writing this letter to draw the urgent attention of your goodself towards an alarming spurt in serious crimes in the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi. Seriousness of the situation can be gauged from a heart rending fact that four murders have taken place during the last 24 hours in different parts of Delhi,” Kejriwal said.
“I appeal to your goodself to initiate urgent effective steps to restore the confidence in residents about the security and safety of their lives, sice such serious crimes have shaken Delhi. It is high time that those entrusted with the responsibility of ensuring the safety of lives of residents of Delhi should not be seen as failing time and again in their mandatory duty,” he added.
The Delhi CM cited the latest report of the National Crime Records Bureau saying Delhi accounted for 32.20 per cent of the total crimes against women that took place in 19 metropolitan cities in India and questioned why the Ministry of Home Affairs did not take any action on this.
He also said that the lack of Delhi Police personnel on the field has forced the residents to hire services of private security firms.
“I am constrained to state that the kind of urgency required for prevention of crimes in Delhi is completely missing on the part of decision makers responsible for the maintenance of law and order here,” he said.
Kejriwal suggested that ensuring effective police patrolling particularly during night hours was the need of the hour along with engagement with the residents of Delhi on how to improve law and order situation.