The ongoing controversy between the Delhi Government and Delhi Police heated further on Saturday when the Government issued a statement terming the media reports as mischievous and motivated and concerted attempts to divert the public attention from the inability and unwillingness of Delhi Police to maintain law and order in the Capital.
Responding to the racist twist in the case to a news channel, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal defended law Minister Somnath Bharti’s midnight raid on Ugandan women and said that he did not think that the Minister made any racist comments. Meanwhile, the Delhi Police defended its officers’ stand during the recent confrontation between them and law Minister Somnath Bharti as Police Commissioner BS Bassi said that he would ‘always stand by his men.’
“Our job is to protect the people of Delhi... whatever my officers told me is prima facie correct. As the Delhi Commissioner of Police (CP), I always stand by my men,” said the Delhi Police Commissioner. The Commissioner said he would only be able to comment on the details of the case, where Somnath Bharti and police officers had a tiff for launching a raid on alleged drugs and sex rackets in south Delhi’s Malviya Nagar, once the report of the inquiry constituted by lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung is completed.