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Kejriwal asks Bassi for details on crime against women
New Delhi, July 20
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind
Kejriwal on Monday asked Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi to provide
details regarding crime against women in the national capital.
The
AAP leader made the request at a meeting with Bassi at his office, four
days after the brutal murder of a teenager here made the Delhi
government reiterate its demand for control of Delhi Police.
"We
asked Bassi to give us details on the number of FIRs registered on the
basis of complaints by women and FIRs not registered by police," Delhi
Home Minister Satyendra Jain told the media.
Kejriwal also asked
Bassi to make public names of inspectors who were being repeatedly made
heads of police stations in the city and inspectors who were ignored for
such postings, Jain said.
Delhi Police, which reports to the
union home ministry and not to the Delhi government, has some 1,500
inspectors who alone are eligible to head police stations.
Jain said Bassi declined to share this information.
The
commissioner provided to Kejriwal a list of 500 people who had been
murdered in Delhi, saying the chief minister must give their families
too the ex-gratia he announced for the family of the teenager murdered
last week.
"When we told him to give this list to the prime
minister, Bassi said that the prime minister did not have time for all
this and he was too much preoccupied in other matters.
"He (Modi) has no time for Delhi Police," Jain quoted the commissioner as saying.
Jain insisted that Kejriwal had a right to ask these questions to Bassi "as we are people's representatives".
"The chief minister has the right to ask these questions. It is also his duty to ask these questions.
"Those whose salaries come from public funding must provide answers to the public," Jain said.
According
to Delhi government sources, Kejriwal also demanded from the police
chief a list of constables with mobile numbers "so that policing in the
city can be improved", informed sources said.