POLICE STATION SRINIVASPURI

SHO : Inspector Shri Om Parkash Yadav
ACP : Shri Avinash Chander

Police Station Srinivaspuri has three Police  Posts  each under a Sub Inspector:

1.            New Friends Colony                         Shri Laxmi Chand, SI

2.            Sunlight Colony                                Shri Ishar Singh, SI.

3.            Okhla Phase I                                   Shri Bhawan Singh, SI.

Srinivaspuri  had under its jurisdiction DAV College, Hari Nagar  Ashram, Ashram Chowk, Bhagwant Nagar, Shalimar Bridge and Sidhartha  Bastis , Sunlight Colony and posh colonies like  Maharani Bagh   and New Friends Colony.  There are a number of other areas  including some villages in the extreme south of Delhi.  This P.S. was seriously affected during the riots of 1984.

DEATHS

The figures of deaths are also conflicting  However, the Delhi Administration, Delhi, has identified at least twenty  deaths in the area of this Police Station.

EVENTS

Trouble in this area started on the night of 31^st October, 1984 when a Taxi Stand  opposite Police Station DAV College was set on fire.  Vehicles  were also set on fire in the night near Ashram Chowk.  From the morning of 1st November, 1984 incidents started with full fury  when the vehicles were set on fire at Ashram Chowk, New Friends Colony, Tamoor Nagar,  and houses of Maharani bag hand New Friends Colony  were set ablaze.  There were some serious incidents in Ashram Chowk on that day besides Bharat Nagar,  Shalimar Bridge, Sukhdev Vihar, Kalindi Colony etc.  Some incidents continued on 2^nd , 3^rd and 4^th November, 1984 also.

FIR' s

Although a very large number of incidents of all types took place in this area very few  cases were registered and apparently no effective action   was taken by the police.