Union Home Minister Amit Shah chaired an important meeting on Friday to review the law and order situation in Delhi. The meeting was attended by Delhi CM Rekha Gupta, Delhi Home Minister Ashish Sood, and other senior officials from the Delhi government. The meeting started around 11.30 am on Friday.
The leaders discussed how to improve the coordination between the Delhi Police and the newly formed Delhi government. The meeting also discussed pointers on how to tackle the new law and order challenges in the National Capital while simultaneously strengthening the police’s effort to address these challenges.
Amit Shah has earlier stressed the need for strong law enforcement in Delhi because of the city being the National Capital of the country.
Earlier, on February 18, Shah had met Omar Abdullah, Jammu and Kashmir’s Chief Minister, and Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha. During that meeting, he stressed on the urgent need to bring in new criminal laws in Jammu and Kashmir by April 2025.
Shah also highlighted how important is technology in speeding up justice under these new laws, which replaced the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), and the Indian Evidence Act. He asked for regular reviews of the law’s implementation at different levels of government.
