Parts of the city centre including India Gate area—which violence erupted Sunday—remained sealed off. Delhi Metro kept nine stations shut until evening when five were reopened.
The five included Rajiv Chowk, the busiest on the network with a daily footfall of five lakh commuters. Central Secretariat, Udyog Bhavan, Patel Chowk and Race Course Road stations remain closed.
Even as police raced against time to file a chargesheet in the rape case, Chief Minister Dikshit and Delhi Police were locked in a public spat.
Dikshit urged Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde to order a “high-level independent enquiry” against senior police officials for allegedly interfering when the rape victim's statement was recorded by magistrate Usha Chaturvedi.
Police chief Neeraj Kumar denied the allegation.
Chaturvedi accused three senior police officers of putting pressure on her to record the statement the way it suited police. Neeraj Kumar refuted the charge and accused the magistrate of not speaking the truth.
Delhi Police reports to the home ministry, not to Dikshit.
Police spokesman Rajan Bhagat said: “We want to ask how a letter marked ‘Top Secret' reached the media. There should be a probe who leaked it.”
The rape victim gave a second statement to a magistrate Monday evening.
