After being dormant for a few weeks now, the
confrontation between the ruling Aam Aadmi Party and Delhi Police flared
up on Sunday again. The two found each other at loggerheads over the
brutal killing of a 19-year-old girl in central Delhi. Dozens of
volunteers of AAP's youth wing on Sunday were detained and later
released after they held a demonstration outside the Police Headquarter
demanding the resignation of Delhi Police commissioner.
The protest comes a day after chief minister Arvind Kejriwal slammed the Delhi Police accusing it of being responsible for "deteriorating law and order situation". On Sunday mornning, nearly 300 AAP activists marched towards the headquarters and some of them tried to break the police barricade following which police used water cannons to disperse the protesters.
Meenakshi, a 19-year-old resident of central Delhi's Anand Parbat area, was brutally stabbed to death allegedly by two brothers living in her neighbourhood on July 16.
While the main accused, Jai Prakash, was arrested after the incident his brother Ajay who was earlier detained by the police was arrested on Saturday.
Police officials told dna that Meenakshi's family had filed a complaint against Jai Prakash in 2013 alleging that he used to stalk her. However, no FIR was registered in connection with that.
Kejriwal after meeting Meenakshi's parents yet again demanded that the Delhi Police be brought under the state government. He also asked police commissioner BS Bassi to meet him on Monday to discuss law and order situation in the national capital.
"I will definitely go and meet him and will exchange our thoughts…There is a possibility of him telling something useful to us and may be I will give him something which will make him informative towards policing because I have been working for 38 years in the department," said Bassi.
On AAP's demand for bringing the Delhi Police under the control of city government, Bassi said there was no need for any changes in its current administrative structure.
"The mechanism at present is appropriate. This was no-knee jerk reaction when the GD Khosla Committee introduced the commissionerate system in Delhi. After deliberation and examination of witnesses, the Parliament Act of 1978 was formed. Any attempt to tamper with the mechanism will be injustice to Delhi residents and can be dangerous."
On Saturday, AAP government had announced a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to the family of the girl and ordered a magisterial probe into the case.
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