Delhi Police deployed personnel at Jantar Mantar without visible name tags for their safety during protests.
51, which provide for visible identification and name plates for police personnel. Because of the nature of their duties, police sources, however, said some personnel deployed during large protests belong to specialised detection or intelligence units and normally work in plain clothes.
Officials aware of the deployment said the decision followed instances in which individual police personnel were identified and targeted on social media after clashes during an earlier protest at Jantar Mantar. NEW DELHI: Delhi Police personnel deployed for crowd-control duties at Jantar Mantar during protests against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar did not wear visible name tags, with officials saying the measure was deliberately adopted to protect personnel from being identified and targeted on social media and to prevent their families from being dragged into controversies arising from protest-related action. CPI Rajya Sabha MP P Sandosh Kumar, who was detained during Friday’s protest, wrote to Union home minister Amit Shah alleging police violence, arbitrary detentions and concealment of identification badges by some personnel. Kumar cited the Supreme Court’s directions in the D K Basu case and Delhi Police Standing Order No. He sought an inquiry into the alleged use of force, detentions, deployment of plain-clothes personnel and the absence of visible identification badges.
“Many personnel were targeted on social media after the July 20 incident.
There are also concerns that once the identity of a junior officer is circulated online, his or her family members can get dragged into the matter,” an officer said. who are generally easily identifiable, continued to wear their name tags, several junior personnel deployed on the ground were allowed to work without visible identification, the officer said While senior IPS officers.