CRPF to replace Rajasthan Armed Constabulary at Delhi High Court
The blast that rocked the Delhi High Court on Wednesday has triggered a series of changes in the complex's security infrastructure with the Central Reserve Police Force set to replace the Rajasthan Armed Constabulary for guarding its premises from Friday.
“The CRPF will take over security inside the complex whereas the entry points are manned by the security wing of the Delhi Police. Peripheral security for the entire premises is being taken care of by the district police,” said a police officer. While 14 pickets have been set up in the entire vicinity, the police would henceforth randomly check vehicles passing by the area. Eleven similar police pickets have been set up around the vicinity of the Supreme Court and patrolling intensified.
Apart from this major change approved at a meeting here on Thursday, it is learnt that the Sports Authority of India has also agreed to provide the closed-circuit television cameras it had procured for use during the Commonwealth Games for installation at the High Court premises. Security agencies had come under heavy criticism from all quarters for not having installed CCTVs despite the May 25 low-intensity blast at the Delhi High Court. “It will certainly help security personnel keep a constant watch over activities in and around the complex,” said another officer.
The officer said the Electronics Corporation of India Limited representatives have assured that the CCTVs would be installed within three weeks. The procurement of four under-vehicle scanners has also been cleared.
The system of issuing entry passes to casual daily visitors, including litigants, is undergoing a complete overhaul. As discussed, passes will be issued along with the photograph of the visitor. An internal system would be devised to ensure that security personnel are able to crosscheck whether the visitor has indeed met the person for whom he obtained the entry pass.
“Construction of the car parking complex close to the High Court is expected to be completed in three months. Till then, visitors will have to park vehicles on Bhairon Marg, from where they would be provided a shuttle service in the Delhi Transport Corporation buses. Parking arrangement for lawyers has been made along two of the radials at the nearby India Gate, from where they can also avail of the shuttle-service facility,” the officer said.
It is learnt that all the stakeholders would soon be involved to modernise security apparatus at court complexes across the city.
Keywords: Delhi High Court blast, CRPF security
All the money politicians make in one year will be good to buy enough CCTV cameras and monitor security of the country. Take away all the assets and money from the politicians. Shame on the politicians.
Why cant we follow the west.Only allow Judges cars into the court compound. All lawyers and litigants and visitors have to enter the court premises on foot only.No parking allowed in and around the courts.All people irrespective of class,position should be frisked manually and have to go through a scanner. This I feel is better security,As the proposal mentioned above ,I can see flaws in the shuttling of people from the car park to the court. What if a person gets into the bus from the car park and is capable of creating mischief in the bus as well as if he gets access to the court premises. SO utmost prevention is what we should have rather than allow people to sniff loopholes in the system.Recall we are famous for creating loopholes and our bureaucrats are good at the blame game.
game.ANother important issue we shoudl think about is reducing crowd
at court premises. IF we have good Justice delivery system crowds
can be minimized.Uk and Aus system can be implemented.
chidambaram, as h.m who has time&again miserably failed to discharge his duties, should resign at once or should be sacked forthwith. He has no moral rights to continue to be a minister in any capacity.
not only in High court complex.....everywhere CCTV must be installed and constant monitoring must be done by the concerned authority like our jawans, security guards..and a immediate awareness programme to be launched where each and every citizen to be trained so that they can act as a check for those anti-social animals..."prevention is better than cure"....because after the incident has happened we don't care who is claiming and who is blaming we just need our people dont have to lose their life, to be safe and didnt get hurt too.
What is appalling is that all these measures are going to be taken after a deadly terror strike claimed 13 lives and injured many more. What the latest attack exposed is that our government did not wake up from its slumber after the infructuous attempt on May 25. Rapid intensification of security at the site of the blast is a useless exercise in my opinion as I don't think perpetrators of the blast would be so fool as to stage a similar attack at the same place given the fact that there are no dearth of places in India they can play hell with. Positioning CRPF forces for few months and then withdrawing them eventually for other assignments would yield little in terms of securing a particular place. Instead, I think it would be wise to adopt a graduated and sustainable approach by enhancing capabilities of local police officials in guarding vital installations and other possible terror targets across India on a long term basis without overstretching our already overburdened CRPF.
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