Delhi blast: L-G issues slew of directions; police to maintain record of ammonium nitrate buyers, sellers

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Lt. Governer of Delhi Vinai Kumar Saxena asked the constabulary  to support   a integer  grounds   of entities purchasing and selling ammonium nitrate beyond a definite  threshold. File

Lt. Governer of Delhi Vinai Kumar Saxena asked the constabulary to support a integer grounds of entities purchasing and selling ammonium nitrate beyond a definite threshold. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu

Delhi L-G V.K. Saxena has directed constabulary to support a integer grounds of entities purchasing and selling ammonium nitrate beyond a definite bounds and to undertake rigorous information audits of engaged markets and ISBTs, days aft a blast adjacent the Red Fort claimed 14 lives.

The directions, which were issued successful abstracted written communications to the constabulary commissioner and the main caput connected November 19, are portion of a slew of "precautionary and preventive" measures ordered by the Lt. Governor.

Mr. Saxena asked the constabulary to support a integer grounds of entities purchasing and selling ammonium nitrate beyond a definite threshold. The grounds should see photographs of buyers and sellers, isolated from different applicable details.

Police person besides been instructed to clasp a consultation workout with heads of societal media platforms, including Meta and X, for a technological tracking of radicalised contented aimed a brainwashing citizens.

"The constabulary commissioner has besides been asked to fortify quality and method quality with a absorption connected susceptible areas prone to radicalisation. Community outreach and national engagement should besides beryllium enhanced for much robust preventive policing," a Raj Niwas authoritative said, citing the communications.

Mr. Saxena besides directed constabulary to behaviour a rigorous information audit of engaged markets and ISBTs to way CCTV camera sum and deployment of information personnel.

The medication has been asked to make a cardinal information repository, containing records of doctors and para-medical unit engaged by hospitals, particularly backstage facilities, on with details of their aesculapian degrees.

"In cases wherever aesculapian professionals person secured degrees from overseas countries, accusation should besides beryllium shared with the constabulary section for secondary inheritance checks," the authoritative said.

They person besides been asked to clasp a consultation workout with each integer platforms and financiers engaged successful merchantability and acquisition of vehicles, particularly second-hand vehicles.

"Clear directions should beryllium fixed that nether nary condition volition vehicles beryllium allowed to ply wherever existent proprietor is antithetic from the registered owner. This occupation is reportedly astir acute successful cases of autorickshaws, wherever the licence holder is antithetic from existent owner," the authoritative said.

The November 10 blast, which was triggered by a "suicide bomber", came soon aft an interstate "white-collar" panic module was uncovered with the betterment of a immense cache of explosives chiefly from Faridabad successful Haryana.

Published - November 21, 2025 12:02 p.m. IST

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