The Home Ministry, the Delhi Police and the Delhi government were severely pulled up by the High Court on Wednesday over their delay in approving close to 15 proposals to increase the number of police personnel in the city.
“Get it done and over with. Why are you dilly-dallying? It seems you don’t want to increase the police force,” said the bench of Justices Badar Durrez Ahmed and Sanjeev Sachdeva.
The matter came up during the affidavit filed by the police in response to an earlier order of the court.
It had asked the police to expedite the proposal to induct more cops and install CCTVs within two months of identifying the vulnerable areas in the Capital.
The police said that a survey had been carried out, and it had identified an amount of Rs.404.32 crore as the cost of installing 6,630 cameras in 44 red-flagged areas of the city.
The Court did not accept this reasoning of the police and refused to approve the amount.
The order was passed in reference to a Public Interest Litigation filed by an advocate Meera Bhatia seeking that the CCTV cameras which had been installed for the US President, Barack Obama’s visit in January, not be removed in the interest of women’s safety.
