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This is an archive article published on July 10, 2023
More power in offing for Delhi Police after nod to Gujarat law
Officials said the move comes after the Delhi Police wrote to the L-G asking for a stricter law to rein in snatchers and drug peddlers.
Sources said that the Delhi Police had first reached out to Raj Niwas with the suggestion for a more stringent law in Delhi following snatchings in the city early last year. (Express file photo by Amit Mehra)
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Delhi Police is expected to get more stringent powers of preventive detention, with Lieutenant Governor (L-G) V K Saxena approving the proposal submitted by the Delhi Home Department to extend the Gujarat Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Act, 1985 to the capital.
The proposal has been sent to the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Officials said the move comes after the Delhi Police wrote to the L-G asking for a stricter law to rein in snatchers and drug peddlers.
The Act provides for preventive detention of “bootleggers, dangerous persons, drug offenders, immoral traffic offenders” for preventing “anti-social and dangerous activities prejudicial to the maintenance of public order”.
According to officials from L-G House, the Home Department submitted the proposal to Saxena on June 26. The Law Department has vetted the draft notification, officials said.
Sources said that the Delhi Police had first reached out to Raj Niwas with the suggestion for a more stringent law in Delhi following snatchings in the city early last year. The then L-G Anil Baijal asked officials to explore the issue.
“The Telangana Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, property offenders … etc Act, 1986 was examined but it was found to be too stringent. It was then decided to go with the Gujarat law as it was more reasonable,” an official said. The L-G house said Saxena had, in March, given approval to the Home Department’s proposal that Delhi Police should effectively use the National Security Act of 1980.
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Delhi has seen several cases of snatching and armed daylight robbery over the past few days, with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government attacking the L-G over the law and order situation, which is under the latter’s jurisdiction.
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