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Delhi Police is expected to get stricter powers of preventive detention, with approval from Lieutenant Governor (LG) V.
The proposal has been sent to the Ministry of the Interior.
Officials said the move comes after Delhi Police wrote to LG asking for tougher law to curb kidnappers and drug dealers.
The law provides for preventive detention for “smugglers, dangerous persons, drug offenders, and immoral trafficking offenders” to prevent “anti-social and dangerous activities prejudicial to the maintenance of public order.”
According to officials from LG House, the Home Office submitted the proposal to Saxena on June 26. The officials said the Ministry of Legal Affairs had examined the draft notice.
Sources said Delhi Police first approached Raj Niwas to suggest a tougher law in Delhi after the kidnappings in the city early last year. The then LG Anil Baijal asked the administrators to troubleshoot this issue.
“The Telangana Prevention of Dangerous Activities Act of Smugglers, Property Offenders…etc., Act 1986 was scrutinized but turned out to be too stringent. It was then decided to work with Gujarat law as it was more sensible,” said LG House Saxena, in a statement. March, approval of the Home Office’s proposal that the Delhi Police make effective use of the National Security Act 1980.
Delhi has witnessed many cases of kidnapping and armed robbery in broad daylight over the past few days as the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government has attacked LG due to the law and order situation, which is under the jurisdiction of the latter.
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