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The determination to determination to Sadiq Nagar was taken successful August aft its 36-year-old 'original' bastion astatine Lodhi Road was acceptable to beryllium razed down adjacent year.
The New Delhi Range (NDR) of Delhi Police’s anti-terror unit, Special Cell, has begun relocation to its caller office successful Sadiq Nagar arsenic its 36-year-old ‘original’ bastion successful Lodhi Colony is owed for a large-scale makeover adjacent year, officers said.
Though the constabulary are yet to formally denote that the Special Cell has commenced the relocation, an serviceman said 3 teams of NDR, including the Tech team, person already moved to the Sadiq Nagar office. The caller three-storey office has adjacent to 20 rooms, with each level expected to location 2 teams astatine least, an serviceman said. “This is simply a bigger installation than the Lodhi Road bureau and has a state-of-the-art surveillance system,” said different officer.
The determination to determination to Sadiq Nagar was taken successful August aft its 36-year-old ‘original’ bastion astatine Lodhi Road was acceptable to beryllium razed down adjacent year. A caller improved installation volition beryllium built successful its place, arsenic per a connection approved past twelvemonth by the Cabinet Committee connected Security (CCS), chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The program proposes to physique a caller blast-proof building, which volition person an indoor shooting range, state-of-the-art interrogation country and a harmless house, The Indian Express reported successful April. “It volition beryllium a seven-floor gathering with 2 floors of underground parking and a blast impervious operation considering the enlargement successful Cell’s ambit implicit the years,” an serviceman said.
The connection was initially crafted successful 2021 and was moved nether the ‘Modernisation of Police Forces’ scheme, earlier being cleared by the Home Ministry aft which the CCS approved it.
The modernisation of the interrogation country is 1 of the superior objectives down the demolition of the aged office, an serviceman said, adding that the caller gathering is expected to travel up successful the adjacent 2 years. It would besides location the offices of Special Commissioner of Police (CP) and Additional CP of Special Cell, who presently run from the caller constabulary office connected Ashoka Road.
Former Delhi Police Additional CP Ashok Chand, who was astatine the helm of Cell’s affairs arsenic its DCP from 1988 to 1998, said the Lodhi Road bureau saw suspects of immoderate of the biggest panic and narcotics-related cases, including Parliament attacks, Red Fort blasts, cocaine busts, and the Dawood pack members, brought successful for questioning. In 2023, the Lodhi Colony bureau determination was recovered by quality agencies successful the strategy of Pakistan’s ISI, The Indian Express had reported.
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