Bir Devinder Singh (file photo)
Bir Devinder Singh
SAS Nagar (Mohali) October 17,2017: Former Punjab Deputy Speaker Bir Devinder Singh has expressed concern over alleged deteriorating law and order situation in Mohali especially in the wake of gruesome murder of a senior journalist KJ Singh and his 92-year-old mother on 23 September 2017 which is still untraced.
The fact that the SIT constituted by the CM to probe this double murder, seems to be clueless about the perpetrators of the heinous crime, in the heart of the city.
He alleged that the law and order was deteriorating in Mohali which was a cause of deep worry to its residents as they were fast losing confidence in the surveillance mechanism of the Punjab Police. The incidence of crime against women tto was on rise as chain snatching and eave teasing of women has become the order of the day for the petty criminals, he added.
Bir Devinder expressed concern over collapse of much touted “Women Armed Special Protection Squads” (WASPS) created by the previous Badal regime in April 2013. "I’m told that the most of the women commandos, specially selected and trained for the WASPS (Mohali) has since been deployed in the CM’s Security at Chandigarh, in utter disregard of sensitivity and concern for the safety of women in Mohali," he alleged.
Given the escalating incidence of crime against the women, he urged the Chief Minister to take a call and review the police apparatus in Mohali. "I would rather beseech the Chief Minister to order immediately to make the Women Armed Special Protection Squads (WASPS) functional with immediate effect," said Bir Devinder Singh.
Mohali is an imminent and most sought after destination of Punjabi Diaspora, world over; to have their second alternative residence in this satellite town having immediate proximity to Chandigarh. Therefore the State Government must take special measures to ensure that the GMADA area is effectively made a ‘crime free zone’ (CFZ), he added.