Sumeet Singh

What’s with Republic day security in Delhi and arrest of militants from Seelampur? Not that I live there, or have a particular liking to that colony, but I feel it’s too obvious for anyone to have disbelief in reports of LeT men arrested in Seelampur every year, year after year. Either the local Police Station at Seelampur is too efficient in nabbing the so called terrorist suspects, or Seelampur is not a good place to hide as other places in Delhi are. So what distinguishes the infamous locality from others, provided it’s neither too close to Pakistan or Bangladesh border nor it has caves like Tora Bora to breed terrorists, is an interesting question to think about. The arrests in Seelampur are nothing but a prime example of how reputation precedes the reputed.

The area is largely inhabited by Muslim population, mostly uneducated, and hence is an easy target for the police to pickup their suspects and meet the crime chart figures. Is it an irony that each militant possesses RDX and weapons, and plans to blow up Rashtrapati Bhawan, and still RDX has almost never been used in terror activities in delhi. As per my information, RDX is extremely difficult to procure and even more difficult to manage. So what brings all RDX loaded men to Delhi’s Seelampur is something Delhi Police has never been able to explain. For what I suggest to our khaki wearing men is to look for a better place, probably Karol Bagh, Rohini or some sector in Dwarka to conduct such arrests. As Khushwant Singh had once saidIndia Delhi is gone to the dogs