The Delhi Police is maintaining a close watch on the movements of muscelmen, criminals, trouble mongers and the bootleggers as the Assembly polls draw nearer.
All the 11 police districts have been asked by the Delhi Police’s top brass to keep a tab on these anti-social elements and take precautionary measures in order to curb their activities.
Special Branch of the Delhi Police is keeping a watch on the activities of the political activists to maintain law and order during the campaigns and when the day voting will take place.
The city police has taken 967 persons from across the city into preventive detention under Sections 107/151 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC). Similarly, 403 persons have been booked under Sections 107/1116 of the CrPC. They have booked another 244 persons under Sections 109/110 of the CrPC.
These Sections have been applied by the Delhi Police to rein in those whose very presence can pose threat to the peace in the society.
Till Sunday, the Delhi Police booked 7,472 persons under the various provisions of the Delhi Police Act, 1978 to deter the trouble makers. Apart from these characters, the Delhi Police has also identified 82 people who can pose serious threat to the safe and sound conduct of the polls.
A senior police official said that round-the-clock surveillance is maintained on the movements of these anti-social elements and if need be, stringent measures will be initiated against them to prevent them from indulging in activities that can affect the safety and security of the voters during the polls.
According to the figures available with the Delhi Chief Electoral Office, the Delhi Police has served and executed 229 non-bailable arrest warrants against the offenders and has also bound down 142 persons under Sections 107/166 of the CrPC.
With the police issuing instructions and preparing ‘Kalandara’ (its a word used for report recorded by police in non cognisable cases.) under this head, the person concerned cant not afford to commit any offence as that would force the law enforcing agency in arresting and sending him to prison.
Police officials said that they were according special emphasis on the rural areas of the national Capital. There are 114 such hamlets that have identified as highly vulnerable.
These villages have a past history of flare ups during the campaign periods and the day votes are caste. Spotters of the Delhi Police have fanned across these hamlets to maintain surveillance on the activities and the movements of the inhabitants.
Police is maintaining a close watch on the illegal arms smugglers and informers have been put on the job to provide intelligence about any such attempt.A senior police official said that inter-State arms smugglers too have been kept under the radar as there are inputs that illegal arms manufactured in the illegally run factories of Munger district in Bihar and Western Uttar Pradesh may find its way into the city.