Sukhjeevan Sharma,,
INVC,,
Panchkula,,
During the year 2012, the crime graph of the city registered many ups and downs. Despite the police’s claims of strengthening the law and order situation in the city, the residents remained unhappy with the increasing number of thefts, snatchings and robberies at public places. The city witnessed its first theft incident at a public place on 11th january, two thieves made a unsuccessful attempt to break the ATM in sector -21. There was three lakh cash inside the ATM.. In another case, On 5th January, Two dead bodies of labourers were recovered by the police near barwalla under mysterious circumstances . It was being assumed that it is a case of murder. In another freak incident, A body of 20 year old youth Ram Parsad was found hanging on the tree in the forests near nada sahib gurudwara. Local police handed over the dead body to the family members after postmortem. This year too, cases of thefts remained a cause of worry for the police force. Although the police did manage to nab many thieves, the number of thefts reported have increased considerably. All the police could do was to blame the cases on drug addiction. Another criminal activity which was reported almost every other day throughout the year was snatching. Women, especially elderly, were targeted by the snatchers who made good with the jewellery. Although the police expressed helplessness over the incidents, in june, sector-7 residents caught hold of two snatchers and beat them up. While the city’s police force remained busy with VIP security and controlling protests, the city hung its head in shame after recovery of male and female foetuses was reported from many parts of the city. The police failed to solve the mystery behind the abandoned foetuses. In the month of November, the district police congress leader of baddi Ram Kumar chaudhary along with three others in the murder of 24 year old Jyoti resident of hoshiarpur and after over one month the police is still clueless and the accused are playing hide and seek with the police. In January, CIA staff of district Police has achieved a major success by recovering heavy and commercial quantity of opium and arrested three accused Harvinder Singh resident of Vill Tindawala Distt. Firozpur, Parveen Kumar resident of Vill Jalalabad Distt. Firozpur and Jora Singh resident of Vill Tindawala Distt. Firozpur (Pb.) The fifth month was also in the news after , Panchkula CIA staff recovered rich haul of vehicles from interstate gang of thieves. The police recovered 27 luxury and pick-up vehicles from interstate gang and arrested two members of gang. In the month of May, as per the orders of the Supreme Court, police started cracking the whip on the use of black films in cars and issued a large number of challans to defaulters. In the month of September, the CIA staff of panchkula arrested fake IPS officer Aman Kumar of Haryana police who use to dupe residents in getting them jobs, is in blackmailing and the police received number of complaints against the accused. In the month of November, the burglars strikes at the jewellery shop in sector-7 and decamped with the jewellery of 35 lakh. The police is still clueless in the robbery. In the month of May, IPS Parul Kush Jain replaced Manish Chaudhary as the DCP Panchkula. Within days of her joining, police took out a massive flag march to restore a sense of security in the hearts of the residents. The residents said that with deployment of police at various points in the city round the clock has indeed instilled a sense of security to some extent. The year 2012 witnessed a large number of road accidents in which many people, mostly the young, in the age-group of 18 to 25 years, lost their lives. The first accident of the year was witnessed in January on Pinjore-Parwanoo National Highway where two persons including threee year old Bholla and his uncle Ashu died in a head on collision and four family members were seriously injured. In January, Two youths while trying to overtake truck died in road accident near barwalla. According to information Amit (21) and Sandeep (17) residents of village –rattewalli near barwalla were going towards barwalla on a bike to distribute the wedding cards of the marriage of amit’s sister. Similarly, six year old child killed in accident on morni road and three injured as the jeep fell in the deep gorge. In the month of September, MBA student along with three died in road accident near raipurrani. In the month of November, Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam(UHBVN) detected the scam of electricity bills of worth 44 lakh. The department has forwarded the complaint to police to register the case against the accused ex-servicemen Mahinder Gupta. The police arrested three in the scam and recovered the amount from the accused. In the month of October, the police cracked the postal scam of RD’s of worth one crore and the postal department recovered around 30 lakh from the postal agents. Twenty six bus passengers were seriously injured and two were killed when the tourist vehicle in which they were travelling overturned near near raipurrani, 20 kms from panchkula in May this year. Similarly, five school children received injurious when their auto rickshaw overturned on panchkula-kalka highway near surajpur in April. The police also launched a special drive against the traffic rule violators. Traffic policemen said they have been issuing challans to the violators of traffic rules everyday. The cops said that the number of accidents due to wrongly parked vehicles has gone down drastically in the city as people have started parking their vehicles within the yellow line. Because of a special drive against the traffic rule violators, the number of those who jump the red light and those parking their vehicles in a haphazard manner by the roadside has reduced to a great extent, police said. Cranes have also been introduced to tow away the wrongly parked vehicles and all this has started creating awareness among the motorists. Volunteers of the NGO nagar sudhar sabha & Road Safety Organisation, that works for road accident victims, attributed the rise in the number of mishaps to the rise in the number of vehicles, especially the SUVs. The NGO has launched a special drive to curb mishaps this year by removing road blockades, especially at night.
