6 held for ‘Goli Maaro’ slogans in one of Delhi’s busiest metro stations

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Delhi metro staff and security personnel at one of the busiest stations – Rajiv Chowk – Saturday morning handed over a group of six men to the Delhi Metro Rail Police after they raised incendiary slogans “desh ke gaddaron ko, goli maaro sa***n ko” or “shoot the traitors who betray the country”.

A video clip of the sloganeering was also widely shared.

“In reference to a video clip going viral on social media, showing sloganeering by some passengers at Rajiv Chowk Metro station, it is to state that this incident happened today around 10:52am at the station and DMRC/CISF staff immediately handed them over to the Delhi Metro Rail Police for further necessary action.

“Under Delhi Metro O&M Act 2002, any kind of demonstration or nuisance is prohibited in Delhi metro premises. Any passenger indulging in such act is liable to be removed from the Metro premises,” the DMRC said in a statement.


Police said the six men have been detained and are being interrogated.

6 held for ‘Goli Maaro’ slogans in one of Delhi’s busiest metro stations

Police said the six men have been detained and are being interrogated.

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The case is being handled by the same police force that did not stop Anurag Thakur from uttering the same words that caused the murder of innocent

The slogan was the same with which Union minister Anurag Thakur had egged on a crowd to chant at an election rally in Delhi earlier this month.


Delhi has been on the edge over the past week after communal violence erupted in the capital’s northeast district that left at least 42 dead and hundreds injured.

Despite a massive deployment of police forces in the riot-hit areas, the capital continues to be tense. The Delhi government has said that it will issue a WhatsApp number on which complaints can be made against hate material being circulated in the wake of the riots in Northeast Delhi.

The violence in northeast Delhi that began as a face-off on Sunday between supporters of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and those opposing the law deteriorated into a communal clash on Monday and raged till Wednesday before police managed to get a hold on it and restore some order.


On Friday, S N Shrivastava took over as Delhi’s Commissioner of Police on Friday from Amulya Patnaik who had come under fire for failing to control the riots from spreading.

6 held for ‘Goli Maaro’ slogans in one of Delhi’s busiest metro stations

Police said the six men have been detained and are being interrogated.

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Also remember that the Judge who questioned the Central Government's handling of the voilence was removed from the case and trasferred.

 

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Delhi riots: The police have lost their autonomy

The recent riots in Delhi were the latest in a series of the police failures to uphold the law during the demonstrations against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, or the CAA. These failures do not come as a surprise. They are the inevitable consequences of something I have written about in this column several times before — the relentless attack of politicians on the autonomy of institutions, and the failure of police officers, civil servants, public sector managers, and others to resist the attack. Writing about the Delhi riots, distinguished retired police officer Prakash Singh, now chairman of The India Police Foundation, said, “Police response invariably reflects the bias of the ruling party”. In his book Police and Politics another distinguished police officer, Kirpal Singh Dhillon, pointed out that the police, far from having gained autonomy at Independence to become a force which serves the public, remained a colonial force which served the government.

The most tragic outcome of the police handling of the anti-CAA protests has been the death of 42 people including two policemen. The most blatantly political police act was unnecessarily barricading roads to spread chaos for commuters, thus creating hostility to the Shaheen Bagh sit-in, giving the Bharatiya Janata Party its main issue in the Delhi election campaign. After visiting the sit-in, former Chief Information Commissioner, Wajahat Habibullah, told the Supreme Court (SC) in an affidavit, “There are numerous roads that have no connection with the protests that have been barricaded by the police unnecessarily abdicating their responsibilities and duties and wrongly laying the blame on the protest.”

The police’s loss of their rightful autonomy and its impact on their functioning has long been recognised. In 1977, the Janata Party government established the National Police Commission. In its reports, it maintained that “political control over the police had led to gross abuses resulting in erosion of the rule of law and loss of police credibility as a professional organisation.” However, when the commission’s reports were published after Indira Gandhi’s return to power, they were sent to state governments by the Centre with the recommendation that no notice should be taken of observations about the political system or the functioning of the police because the commission was “unduly critical.”

Delhi riots: The police have lost their autonomy | Opinion

The most tragic outcome of the police handling of the protests has been the death of at least 42 people.

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