New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) Police should reduce their deployment for VIP security if needed to beef up security for the common people, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said Sunday.
She told the media that she and her cabinet colleagues made the suggestion to Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde.
The chief minister also demanded fast-track courts to try rape cases, including the brutal Dec 16 assault on a 23-year-old who remains warded ih hospital in critical condition.
It was important that people “should feel secure”, she said. “There should be more police patrolling, more police visibility.
“If VIP security has to be cut for the sake of the people, then that should be done. VIP security should not be an excuse to make the ordinary citizen feel insecure.”
Dikshit also said that Delhi Police can’t wash their hands off the Dec 16 incident — when six males raped the young woman for 40 minutes in a moving bus — by just suspending some constables.
“The fast track courts should start immediately. Not only should they be fast track but such cases should be settled within a time bound manner.
“The law should be such that if a case is serious enough, courts should hand out life imprisonment and even death sentence to the rapists.”
