Delhi Police Commissioner Alok Verma has asked Joint Commissioner rank officers to submit a compliance report on the investigation cases pending in their respective districts. According to the sources, around 1.21 lakh cases are pending to be solved by the Delhi Police and Delhi Police officers have received flak for the same from their chief.
Pending cases in Delhi Police seem to push it in the state of plague as percentage of it varies from 21 per cent to 100 per cent. The current Delhi Police data reveals that there are 1.21 lakh cases pending across police stations in 11 districts and other Delhi Police wings, including Special Cell and vigilance.
In over a year, where 27,042 cases are left pending, 9,294 and 4,711 cases are pending for over two and three years respectively — settling at 34 per cent.
In the past one year, 27,042 cases are in the waiting list as the investigation in the said cases is still pending. According to police data, South district has the maximum number of cases (6,000) pending investigation, followed by outer district where 4,259 cases are waiting to be investigated. New Delhi district has to resolve 818 cases, 746 by Railway and Metro, 1,448 by Central district, 228 by North, 1,819 by North-West, and 2,062 by West district. The least number of pending cases lies with Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) unit where it has to investigate only four cases.
The Delhi Police data, copy of which is with The Pioneer, revealed that none of the 50 cases registered between April 15-16 in the Delhi Police Crime Branch has been solved. As many as 144 cases in the Crime Branch are pending between April 2013-16. Standing next to the Crime Branch is North district police where 90 per cent cases are unresolved or pending investigation. Total of 395 cases are pending under North district police where 228 cases are pending between 2015-16, 86 in 2014-16 and 42 in 2013-16 respectively.
Meanwhile, investigation in the cases registered in other district also seems to be at backseat however a leap ahead of North and Crime district or/and unit. Where 33 percent cases are pending investigation in central district, 34 per cent lies in the court of outer district. South district has to handle 34 per cent of cases that are pending investigation.
It may be noted that the Crime Branch and the Special Cell investigated all cases registered between April 2014-15 and Vigilance unit investigated all the cases in 2013-14.