Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday, November 1 conferred the President's Colour on Chandigarh Police at a ceremony in Chandigarh marking the force's Diamond Jubilee and 60th Raising Day. The President's Colour is the highest ceremonial honour for a uniformed force. Sharing a live broadcast link from the ceremony, Shah wrote that Chandigarh Police was completing 60 years of loyalty, discipline and public service, Nation Press reported.

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Chandigarh Police was raised in 1966 following the Punjab Reorganisation Act, which made Chandigarh a Union Territory and the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana. Speaking at the 60th Raising Day event, Shah praised the force of about 6,000 personnel as a national benchmark for effective law enforcement, Mirror Now reported.

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What Shah said about the force's record

Shah said that since August 4, 2024, Chandigarh Police has registered 8,206 FIRs, with 7,590 of those cases resulting in online charge sheets — a feat he described as a national record — and that the force has achieved an 85 per cent conviction rate with an average case resolution timeline of just 140 days, Mirror Now reported. These figures are the Home Minister's statements at the event. He also said the Union government plans to provide 2,152 additional AI-equipped CCTV cameras to the Union Territory.

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Shah announced the induction of 141 new vehicles to strengthen patrolling and mobility, and noted that Chandigarh currently ranks second nationally for emergency response time, saying the new vehicles should help it reach the top spot by next year, Particle News reported. He also paid tribute to officers of the force who died in the line of duty.

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Rs 258 crore projects at Tiranga Park

After the police ceremony, Shah inaugurated and laid foundation stones for development projects worth Rs 258 crore and addressed a gathering at Tiranga Park in Sector 17, PTI reported. The programme covered nine projects: two projects worth Rs 80 crore were listed for inauguration, including a government high school at Sarangpur built for Rs 12 crore and a Chandigarh Transport Undertaking bus depot at Raipur Kalan built for Rs 68 crore, while foundation stones were listed for seven projects worth Rs 178 crore, including 192 Type III residential units for Central Armed Police Forces personnel at Dhanas for Rs 84 crore, a new police station in Sector 49 for Rs 21 crore and a boys' hostel at Chandigarh College of Engineering and Technology in Sector 26 for Rs 25 crore, The North News reported ahead of the visit.

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Shah targets Rahul Gandhi over the Ramlila rally and 1984

Addressing the gathering, Shah strongly criticised Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for holding the INDIA bloc rally at Delhi's Ramlila Maidan on the anniversary of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, PTI reported. 'Rahul Gandhi's November 1 jalsa in Delhi will only rub salt in wounds of anti-Sikh riot victims,' Shah was quoted as saying by PTI. The INDIA bloc held its Chalo Dilli protest at Ramlila Maidan against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over alleged irregularities in electoral rolls and the Special Intensive Revision exercise.

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Targeting the Congress over the 1984 violence, Shah said thousands of Sikhs were killed in Delhi on November 1, 1984, recalled the statement made by then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi after the killings — 'when a big tree falls, the earth shakes' — and said he had watched it on television and could never forget it, PTI reported. Shah also said the Modi government reopened cases linked to the 1984 riots after coming to power in 2014, provided compensation of Rs 5 lakh to the next of kin of each victim and jailed prominent Congress leaders, PTI reported. These are the Home Minister's statements, reported by PTI; no Congress response to Shah's Chandigarh remarks was included in the reports checked for this story.

Source: PTI via Jammu News Portal