Red Fort blast: LG wants eyes on dark spots, radical content, sale of fertilizer

Lieutenant governor (LG) VK Saxena on Friday directed the police commissioner and chief secretary to roll out preventive and intelligence-driven measures to tighten digital surveillance and strengthen citizen-centric policing in the aftermath of the Red Fort blast earlier this month.

- Snehil Sinha

Officials in the LG Secretariat said Saxena has asked Delhi Police to reinforce the standing order governing the sale, transport and storage of ammonium nitrate, the chemical used in the blast as an improvised explosive device. The letter instructs the force to maintain a digital record of all major transactions, including photographs of sellers and buyers, to ensure complete traceability of the substance.