Anti-social elements took full advantage of the chaos which ensued outside the Delhi Secretariat as at least six people lost their mobile phones and wallets including one policeman here today.
According to a senior police official, they received six complaints regarding loss of mobile phones and wallets by 2 PM.
“The victims included two journalists and a police personnel who lost their mobile phones while three other persons lost their wallets as they were pickpocketed,” he said.
A journalist lost his mobile phone when he was speaking to Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti. A child had also drifted away from his parents at the first “janta darbar” organised here by the Delhi Government.
AAP government’s much-talked-about first public meeting outside the Delhi Secretariat here witnessed chaos and mismanagement, forcing Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to leave the venue midway as hundreds jostled with each other to register their grievances.
Kejriwal later admitted that if he had not left the meeting midway, there could have been a stampede. He also promised to “streamline” the system so that similar situation does not recur.
—–PTi