【New Delhi】Two ministers in the Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government early on Thursday "raided" houses of residents in their constituencies.
Law Minister Somnath Bharti "raided" a house in south Delhi's Khirki Extension and Women and Child Welfare Minister Rakhi Birla and her supporters barged into a house in west Delhi's Sagarpur.
The episodes sent the Delhi Police into a tizzy and pitted the men in khaki against politicians who seemed hell-bent on usurping powers of the law enforcers.
Both ministers accused the law enforcers of not doing enough to check prostitution and drug abuse in Khirki Extension and showed laxity in the probe into a woman's death in Sagarpur.
Kejriwal put his weight behind his cabinet colleagues and demanded suspension of the SHOs of the Malviya Nagar and Sagarpur police stations. He also set up a Friday meeting with Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung over the two episodes and the gang-rape of a 51-year-old Danish woman in central Delhi.
While Kejriwal blew his top over the "lax and compromised" policemen in the capital, Delhi Police Commissioner Bhim Sain Bassi denied that there was "rift between the force and the state government".
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Delhi ministers raid houses, Kejriwal defends
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