The National Capital is full of colonial history, Delhi's Barh ki Chowki, which is city's  oldest police posts constructed during the colonial rule in the early 1800s.

Now it will open to the public soon as Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (Intach) has completed restoration and conservation work on it.

According to officials, the restored post is expected to be inaugurated in September itself. “We will operate a small Delhi Police office here. We will take care of the over 200-year-old structure and maintain it properly,” ACP Rajendra Singh Kalkal said, adding it is yet to be decided which office will operate from the place, as reported by the TimesofIndia.

The heritage building was found in a dilapidated condition by Delhi Police in 2006.

Kalkal told TOI that he found details of the chowki while doing research for a coffee table book, ‘Delhi Police: History & Heritage’.

“The chowki has a mention in Mirza Sangin Beg’s memoirs from the 1820s, called ‘Sair-ul Manazil’. It was translated to English by Shama Mitra Chenoy, who said there was a police chowki opposite Kala Pahar, now known as Anand Parbat, near Sheetla mandir (Usha Mata temple). On the basis of this information, we learnt there was an old chowki under Sarai Rohilla police station area,” Kalkal said, adding that the building was found in the North district.

They subsequently approached Intach for its restoration and conservation.

According to A Vijaya, director and head of Intach’s architectural heritage division, the restoration was undertaken in 2022 in two phases.