A week after a few miscreants chased a lawyer, his wife & 2 kids & hurled liquor bottles at their Audi, police is yet to trace the car of the accused or make any arrests.
On New Year’s-eve, Shonak Sharma, a resident of Sector 51, was out with his wife & children, aged 4 & 9, for dinner when a Verna coming from the wrong side came dangerously close to hitting his parents’ car. Moments after Sharma had objected to the rash driving, the accused had chased him a white Verna, hurling liquor bottles at his Audi. One of the bottles had smashed the rear windshield of Sharma’s car.
Anjani Kumar Singh, the SHO of Sector 49 police station said that “The lawyer could not note down the car’s number. We scanned CCTV footage of nearby areas to identify the car. We have got a glimpse of the car in a couple of videos but the number is not clear in them. Several teams are working to identify the car & nab the miscreants".
Sharma expressed concern that the accused couldn't be nabbed even after a week.
He added that “They haven’t even identified the car till now. When will they arrest the accused? No one from the police station has shown me the CCTV clips nor has anyone came to check my car. For the first 3-4 days, I didn’t get the windshield repaired, but when no one showed up, I got a new rear glass".
Sharma said his kids were still scared to go out.
He said, “My kids had been traumatised after the incident. The very next day, I had sent my children & wife to my in-laws’ house so that they could forget the episode. They are back now, but still scared to step out of the house".
Sharma’s Audi was chased between 9.15 pm & 9.45 pm when the police had alleged to have made adequate security arrangements for New Year’s-eve. Sources in the police said at least ten cameras had been placed by each police station for better policing. The traffic police, they added, have their own set of cameras. However, the stretch where the Audi was chased does not have any.
Residents highlighted several loopholes in the system.
Sanjeev Kumar, general secretary of the Sector 51 RWA said, “Noida is considered a hi-tech city, but even then, police have failed to either trace the car or nab the accused after a week. Every time, projects worth several crores are announced, but nothing is done on the ground. Even the commissionerate system was brought in to curb street crime. Tall claims about smart policing were made, but nothing has been done so far".
He said it was a cause for concern that there was no camera on the stretch between Sector 51 & Iskcon temple, where the accused gave up the chase. “Chasing a car & throwing seven to eight liquor bottles at it when the police claimed to have made adequate security arrangements is a shame. We want the administration, government & the police to install more cameras & make the general public feel safer,” he added.
Last year in Jan, CM Yogi Adityanath had inaugurated the “Safe City” project, under which the district was supposed to get 1,600 cameras — 250 of them in the first phase — for monitoring of public spaces.
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