India, Nov. 22 -- The lieutenant governor (LG) VK Saxena on Friday directed the police commissioner and chief secretary to issue preventive and intelligence-driven measures aimed at tightening digital surveillance and expanding citizen-centric policing in the city in the aftermath of the Red Fort blast that rattled the Capital earlier this month.

According to officials from the LG Secretariat, the LG has asked Delhi Police to revisit and strengthen the standing order governing the sale, transport and storage of ammonium nitrate, the chemical that was used in the blast as an improvised explosive device. The letter instructs the force to maintain a digital record of all major transactions, complete with the photographs of sellers and buyer...