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'Politicising Crime Has Become A Habit These Days': Delhi L-G On Kejriwal's Letter Over Spurt In Murders

Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena has said that "politicizing crime...does subject the victim and their family to avoidable agony, apart from encouraging crime".

Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena has written a letter to the Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal expressing concerns over the law and order situation in the national capital. The LG warned Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal against "politicising crime," adding it gives no answer. Despite the vigil, criminality, according to Saxena, has occurred. His letter comes only hours after it was revealed that Kejriwal had sent a letter to Saxena on June 19, stressing the "alarming" increase in crime and recommending a meeting between the LG and the Cabinet, news agency PTI reported. 

Earlier, CM Kejriwal had written a letter to LG over the "deteriorating" law and order situation in the national capital, and held the L-G and Home Minister responsible for the condition. 

In response to the letter by Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, LG VK Saxena writes: "Reviewing and monitoring the Delhi Police on a regular basis. Politicising crime has almost become a habit these days and this provides no solution at all. You and your Council of Ministers are indeed welcome to meet me for a meaningful discussion that leads to solutions rather than creating political opportunities for you and your party to exploit the Media gallery."
LG writes that most of the perpetrators of recent crime in Delhi are young people, below the age of 30, who does not have "any serious criminal antecedents and invariably had on active social media presence." 
 
"In addition to these, crimes involving family and monetary dispute, as the recent incidents in Saket Court and Ambedkar Basti (R K Puram) show, are disproportionately on the rise. You would appreciate that while, policing certainly has a role in deterring such incidents, it used to be the social deterrent that prevented such unheard of incidents from taking place," the letter read.
 
He further said "politicizing crime...does subject the victim and their family to avoidable agony, apart from encouraging crime".  "In this regard, I am sure, that the issue of an unfortunate rape in 2012 raised by you to politically target the then Chief Minister, will serve as an eye opener and conscience knocker for you," he said.
 

 

 

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