Law and Order Situation in Delhi Needs Immediate Action: DCW Chief After Recent Killings

Delhi Commission for Women chairwoman Swati Maliwal said on Monday that the law and order situation in the national capital has deteriorated in the wake of the killings of a Delhi University student and two sisters here.

A first-year DU student was stabbed to death outside Ariyapata College on the South Campus on Sunday after he objected to his girlfriend being harassed by another student, police said.

In another incident, two women were reportedly shot dead by gunmen in RK Puram district of southwest Delhi in the early hours of Sunday morning over a suspected financial dispute with their brother, police said. Three people have been arrested in this regard.

The incident took place at Ambedkar Basti in RK Puram, which is located behind the heavily guarded Army and Air Force headquarters. There are also offices of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in the area.

“There is absolutely no fear of the law in the minds of criminals today. They think they can get away with anything.” Putting law and order in the capital needs immediate action, Maliwal said in a tweet posting excerpts from media reports on the two incidents.

The RK Puram incident sparked a political upheaval with the AAP attacking Delhi Governor LG VK Saxena over the deteriorating law and order situation in the city.

But Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva took shots at Prime Minister Arvind Kejriwal for not visiting Mukherjee Nagar after a fire broke out there.

Last week, students of a training institute in Mukherjee Nagar, northwest Delhi, smashed windows, descended ropes and used ladders in desperate attempts to escape from the fire that broke out in its building.

(This story was not edited by the News18 staff and was published from a syndicated news agency feed – PTI)