A collection of bomb threats to town’s faculties, hospitals and airport, two mysterious explosions, and a surge in extortion calls concentrating on businesspersons put the Delhi Police by way of the wringer in 2024.
Gang rivalry additionally reared its ugly head as felony factions clashed with one another all year long, leading to a number of focused killings with former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal labelling Delhi the nation’s “gangster capital”.
The bomb risk emails concentrating on varied installations, together with faculties, hospitals, and airline corporations, started in Might of this yr.
In December alone, greater than 100 faculties acquired bomb threats from unknown senders, who’ve but to be recognized, with all of them being declared hoaxes.
Based on a police officer, the investigation into the bomb risk emails despatched by way of digital personal networks has been a serious “problem” for the drive.
He stated the probe within the circumstances was nonetheless on and expressed hope that the culprits can be caught quickly.
Whereas the police struggled to attain a breakthrough in these circumstances, two mysterious explosions in Rohini’s Prashant Vihar in October and November solely added to their woes, as they toiled to find out the character of the blasts.
In the meantime, there was a big improve in circumstances of extortion calls, together with shootings exterior the residences of businesspersons, property sellers, automobile showrooms, and candy and jewelry outlets.
With the gang leaders largely working from behind bars or residing overseas, discovering methods to curb such incidents grew to become a headache for town police.
On August 10, the police recognized 11 gangs concerned in a spree of extortion calls, threats to businesspersons, shootings, and killings within the Nationwide Capital Area.
The gangs included Lawrence Bishnoi-Goldy Brar, Himanshu Bhau, Kapil Sangwan alias Nandu, Manjeet Mahal, Neeraj Bawana, and Hashim Baba amongst others.
Following a gang conflict, the horrific homicide of a 26-year-old man was caught on a CCTV digital camera inside a Burger King outlet in west Delhi on June 18.
The police managed to arrest two individuals, together with a lady, who performed a job in honey-trapping the person, resulting in the homicide. Moreover, three alleged shooters had been gunned down in an encounter in Haryana’s Sonipat.
In one other incident of gang violence, a affected person admitted to GTB Hospital in northeast Delhi was shot useless on July 14.
The police later discovered it was a case of mistaken id and apprehended the shooters, who had been members of the Hashim Baba gang.
On September 14, a 35-year-old fitness center proprietor was shot useless by the Lawrence Bishnoi-Hashim Baba Gang in south Delhi’s Better Kailash. The sufferer was reportedly an affiliate of a rival gang chief.
In the meantime, amidst the bloody gang wars spilling onto the streets, town witnessed the wedding of two gangsters.
Jailed felony Sandeep alias Kala Jathedi, an affiliate of Bishnoi, tied the knot with woman don Anuradha Choudhary alias ‘Revolver Rani’ below police watch following a courtroom route on March 12.
Days later, gangster Yogesh Dahiya alias Tunda obtained married below the watch of police personnel at a temple in west Delhi’s Vikaspuri space on March 15.
One of many major henchmen of the Gogi gang, Tunda was allegedly concerned within the homicide of gangster Sunil Maan alias Tillu Tajpuria in Might 2023 inside Tihar Jail.
Aggravating the plight of the Delhi Police was the March 8 incident involving a sub-inspector caught in a video kicking and assaulting a small group of males providing namaz by the aspect of a busy highway in Inderlok.
Because the 34-second video clip started circulating on social media, the Delhi Police confronted public criticism resulting in the suspension of the officer and authorized motion in opposition to him.
In August, the police acquired a rap on its knuckles from the Delhi Excessive Court docket because it transferred the investigation into the basement drowning deaths at a training centre in Previous Rajendra Nagar to the Central Bureau of Investigation.
Three civil service aspirants died attributable to rain-induced flooding within the basement on July 27.
In one other tragic incident in Might, seven toddlers misplaced their lives after a hearth broke out in an east Delhi hospital, prompting authorities, together with police, to crack down on illegally working hospitals.
The Particular Cell of the Delhi Police filed an FIR and arrested Arun Reddy, an AICC nationwide coordinator from Telangana, in reference to a doctored “deepfake” video of Residence Minister Amit Shah surfacing on social media in the course of the Lok Sabha polls.
The murders of two on-duty younger police constables — Sandeep in Nangloi on September 29 and Kiranpal in Govindpuri on November 23 — by criminals dealt a blow to the morale of the drive. Nonetheless, in each circumstances, the police apprehended the assailants and ensured justice for the fallen officers.
A suspected suicide pact of 5 members of a household — a person and his 4 daughters — at their home in Vasant Kunj in September and the homicide of a middle-aged man, his spouse and daughter by his younger son in Neb Sarai in December stored the police occupied.
On the finish of 2024, in the course of the winter session of Parliament, the Delhi Police booked Chief of Opposition and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi following a scuffle between opposition and BJP MPs on the Parliament premises.
The case has been transferred to the Crime Department and an investigation is underway.
