The High Court on Friday came down heavily on the government and the Delhi Police asking why they had not installed CCTVs to beef up security of women in the Capital, but had done so only for a visiting Head of State.
“Buy and put up CCTV cameras. Why can’t you hire cameras for safety of women? If you can do it for visiting Heads of State, you can do it for women and children of the Capital who want safety,” a Bench of Justices Badar Durrez Ahmed and Sanjeev Sachdeva said.
The court also expressed unhappiness over the “lack of progress” on the part of the Centre and Delhi Police in creating additional posts in the force, saying “none of you are interested. You do not want it. Ministry of Home Affairs does not want to do it for some odd reason.”
“If people want more police personnel, how does it hurt you? Taxpayers are paying for it,” it said, adding it had hoped red-tape will be cut by the government for improving safety, but “government agencies are not bothered”. — PTI
