Kanjhawala accident: Home Ministry orders suspension of 11 Delhi police personnel

The horrific incident in Delhi’s Kanjhawala afraid the country and raised considerations about police effectiveness. After reviewing an intensive Delhi Police account on the case of the 20-twelve months-old lady who died after being pulled by a automobile in Kanjhawala, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Friday suspended 11 police officers positioned in three PCR autos and at two police pickets, in step with officials.

These police officers had been show hide at some level of the horrific incident whereby the woman’s physique was as soon as moved over a distance of lots of kilometres by automobile after it collided with her two-wheeler. Moreover, the MHA has quick Delhi Police Commissioner Sanjay Arora to discipline these officers working within the three patrol autos and the 2 police pickets (PCR) of the Delhi Police. 

Two sub-inspectors, four assistant sub-inspectors, four head constables, and one constable are amongst the 11 police officers who had been suspended. Six of the police officers who had been suspended had been assigned to PCR responsibility.

Per the officials mindful of the investigation, the MHA has also quick that the Delhi Police Commissioner field a degree to reason discover in opposition to the managerial officers in gentle of the case’s apparent lack of inquiry. The Ministry quick the Delhi Police to bear all critical measures to bear clear that the offenders fetch the appropriate punishment, in conjunction with bringing a chargesheet in opposition to the offenders as soon as imaginable in court docket.

After receiving an intensive account from the Delhi Police concerning the incident that came about in Fresh twelve months’s early hours within the Kanjhawla neighbourhood of outer Delhi, the MHA made its resolution.

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MHA had asked Delhi Police to bear thorough account

Shalini Singh, the Particular Commissioner of Police, was as soon as charged with compiling the account after conducting an intensive investigation after Union Home Minister Amit Shah had earlier quick his ministry to expect a total account from the Delhi Police concerning the incident.

Shah gave the MHA directions, and the MHA despatched the Delhi Police Commissioner a letter asking for an intensive account on the incident. The directive was as soon as given hours after Delhi Police detained 5 men in the case of the demise of a 20-twelve months-old lady.

(With inputs from ANI)