File photo of Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi.
Delhi Police today defended its officers' stand during the recent confrontation between them and Law Minister Somnath Bharti as Police Commissioner BS Bassi said he will "always stand by his men".
"Our job is to protect the people of Delhi... whatever my officers told me is prima facie correct. As the Delhi Commissioner of Police, I always stand by my men," Mr Bassi said after he met Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde at his office in Delhi.
The Commissioner said he would only be able to comment on the details of the case, where Mr Bharti and police officers had a tiff for launching a raid on alleged drugs and sex rackets in south Delhi's Malviya Nagar, once the report of the inquiry constituted by Lt Governor Najeeb Jung is completed.
"The LG has ordered an inquiry. I will be able to take action only after the report comes," he said.
Mr Bassi also said he came to the Home Ministry to discuss administrative issues with Mr Shinde.
"I have come for administrative issues... I have not talked about this (Kejriwal's demand)," he said.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, along with his cabinet ministers Mr Bharti and Rakhi Birla, earlier met Mr Shinde and demanded that Delhi Police be brought under Delhi government as suspension of the policemen who he said were allegedly negligent in the discharge of their duties as found by his ministers.
Mr Bharti and Ms Birla have accused three police officials of non-cooperation in two separate cases.
Mr Bharti has charged Malviya Nagar police, saying that they did not cooperate with him for conducting a raid on Nigerian nationals, whom he alleged were involved in drugs and sex rackets at Khirki village, while Ms Birla has accused Sagarpur police of shielding the members of a family who allegedly burnt their daughter-in-law over dowry demands.