Panic grips satellite town as desperate criminals strike at will
Panic grips satellite town as desperate criminals strike at will Shoot-on-sight: (top) People gather at Sector 14 where a Mother Dairy booth owner was shot dead on Wednesday (above) and a file photograph of the bakery in which the owner's son was murdered recently
March 30: An armed guard accompanying a Class XII student in a BMW car shot at two people after the latter's car brushed past theirs. The BMW was later intercepted at a police checkpoint near Gwalpadi; the police also recovered the pistol that was used by the guard, Anil, to fire the shots.
April 5: Tarun, 27, son of the owner of a popular bakery in Gurgaon was shot at by three assailants while he was sitting at his store on Railway Road in Sadar Bazar. Panic gripped the entire area while Tarun was admitted to the Artemis Hospital in Old Gurgaon in a critical condition.
April 6: Pravin Chawla, 28, an assistant manager with a leading realty firm, was shot dead. His body was found on the back seat of his car near IFFCO Tower.
April 8: Ratan Lal, 55, a businessman was shot dead by two unidentified assailants who had come to loot his Mother Dairy booth in the posh Sector 14 market.
After Noida and Ghaziabad yet another suburb of Delhi is under a wave of crime.
Gurgaon, which was once hailed as the millennium city, is fast becoming the shootout suburb of the national capital. The satellite town has witnessed 15 shootouts in the past 20 days.
Panic-stricken residents have raised doubts over policing in the town while the cops clarified that it was not possible for them to provide security to each and every resident.
Often called cyber city, Gurgaon, is one of the largest homes to BPOs and KPOs in India and thousands of young working professionals live in the city.
K S Yadav, president of the Resident Welfare Association, Sector 14, where a Mother Dairy booth owner was shot dead, said: "Shootouts and robberies have become the order of the day. The frequency of the incidents indicate the involvement of a particular gang with a set agenda."
"It seems that police are not serious regarding maintenance of law and order. We are going to hold a demonstration against the failure of the police at the mini-secretariat on Thursday," he added.
However, Joint Commissioner of Police, Manjit Singh Ahlawat, said, "We cannot deploy security at each and every point of the city. The city is very big and we don't have corresponding strength."
Apart from the shootouts several cases of loot and robbery at gunpoint have been reported from across Gurgaon. About Rs 6 lakh were robbed at gunpoint in three different cases within two weeks.
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