New Delhi: The Indian Premier League is definitely on but Delhi seems to surely miss being in the stands this time as the Delhi Police have refused to give a green signal to the IPL.
The Delhi Police Commissioner has taken a complete U-turn by denying to the IPL in national capital.
“We can provide security for both. We don’t have a problem,” Delhi Police Commissioner YS Dadhwal said earlier.
But 15 days later he took a complete U-turn and said doesn’t want to take a risk.
“Keeping the elections in mind and the recent terror attacks, the IPL is not a risk I would like to take,” says Dadhwal now.
Senior Delhi Police officials have said that they would require more than 2000 paramilitary personnel to provide security for the IPL.
But previous figures indicate that the Delhi Police which have the highest number of security personnel at its disposal is more than self sufficient to organise an event of this kind.
For instance, last year’s security arrangements for the IPL matches in Delhi included 1000 personnel from the Delhi police and paramilitary forces and 500 from the district police deployed around the stadium area and around 300 to guard the hotel where players were staying and the route between the hotel and Ferozeshah Kotla.
Even when former Pakistan president Parvez Musharraf visited India to watch the match in Kotla in 2005, 1000 officials from Delhi Police and paramilitary and 600 additional personnel were deployed to guard the hotel and the route.
Though Delhi Police might have said a no to the IPL, the metropolitan police forces in Mumbai, Kolkata and Bangalore have given a green signal to the IPL despite being numerically much lesser than the Delhi Police.
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