Over a 1,000 complaints were filed in 40 days after Feb 14. Over a 1,000 complaints were filed in 40 days after Feb 14.

Delhi Police’s vigilance department has been receiving nearly three times more complaints against alleged police inaction every day since Arvind Kejriwal became the chief minister. As many as 25 complaints have been lodged on an average per day since mid-February, compared to 10 daily before that.

Deputy commissioner of police (vigilance) Sindhu Pillai told Newsline, “From February 14 to March 24, we received 1,008 complaints from the office of Delhi Chief Minister against the inaction of Delhi Police, while over the last year, we had received 3,878 complaints.”

Sources in the vigilance department said immediately after Kejriwal became chief minister, people in Delhi started complaining against police personnel in greater numbers. The complaints were forwarded to all the district heads concerned, asking them to look into the matter and submit their reply through their online portal.

“There are complaints of a serious nature, like land grabbing, abduction, illegal detention and extortion, where people are making allegations about the role of cops,” a source said.

Sources said most of the time, the investigating officer who was handling such cases either gives the erring personnel clean chit or deliberately keeps the case pending. “Now after receiving their complaints from the CM’s office, the Delhi Police’s vigilance department has been forwarding their complaint to the district heads and asking them to address them in a limited time period, usually 14 days,” a police source said.

There were complaints of land grabbing against some police personnel of the Burari police station in North Delhi, the sources said. “But instead of taking action against the culprit, the alleged police personnel were harassing the victims. Now the complaint has been forwarded from the CM’s office to the vigilance branch,” a police source said.

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