Don't arrest anyone without proof: Rajnath Singh

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday asked the country’s top police officers not to arrest or harass anyone on basis of allegations of radicalisation unless solid proof was available. Singh also said that genuine NGOs were free to carry out development works but warned that organisations which indulged in anti-national activities, would not be spared.

Singh made these comments on the concluding day of the three-day conference of DGPs and IGPs held in the city. Singh told the top police brass that no innocent person should be arrested or harassed on the basis of allegations of radicalisation and one should be held only after



getting adequate proof, sources said. He, however, directed them to remain alert against online attempts to radicalise youth and urged them to strengthen the cyber security apparatus.

Singh also raised the issue of the crackdown on NGOs, assuring that no bonafide NGO doing public service would have to face government scrutiny.

“But those NGOs which are allegedly trying to hamper development works or indugle in anti-national activities would not be spared,’’ the Home Minister said, in a reference to the ban on the NGO run by controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik.