This is an archive article published on August 10, 2023

Opinion August 10, 1983, Forty Years Ago: Instructions To Cops

Home Minister P C Sethi agreed to issue written instructions that the Delhi police should register all minor crimes and investigate them. Sethi’s response came in the Rajya Sabha during a call-attention motion on the deterioration of the law and order situation in Delhi.

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Sethi’s response came in the Rajya Sabha during a call-attention motion on the deterioration of the law and order situation in Delhi. L K Advani had alleged that oral instructions had been given not to register small crimes.

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August 10, 2023 06:38 AM IST First published on: Aug 10, 2023 at 06:38 AM IST

Home Minister P C Sethi agreed to issue written instructions that the Delhi police should register all minor crimes and investigate them. Sethi’s response came in the Rajya Sabha during a call-attention motion on the deterioration of the law and order situation in Delhi. L K Advani had alleged that oral instructions had been given not to register small crimes.

Meeting On Sri Lanka

Relations between India and Sri Lanka in the context of violence in the island republic will be discussed when the Sri Lankan President’s special emissary, H W Jayewardene, calls on Mrs Gandhi in New Delhi. H W Jayewardene, who is the Sri Lanka President’s brother, is also to meet the Minister of External Affairs, Narasimha Rao.

Delhi House Collapse

The balcony of a house being demolished at Chandrawal Road near old Subzi Mandi in north Delhi collapsed, killing seven persons on the street below instantly, and injuring eight. Among the dead were two children, a 3-year-old girl Priya and 12-year-old Shamshad Ali, believed to be a student of the primary school opposite the house. Four of the other victims crushed to death were women.

Separate Tamil State

The secretary-general of Tamil Eelam Liberation Front, M K Eelavendan, said that “a separate state of Eelam is absolutely necessary for the security of India and in the interest of peace in the Indian Ocean.” The key to peace in the ocean was Trincomalee in the Tamil-dominated part of Sri Lanka.