'Incidents like this cannot be prevented'

Gautam Budh Nagar SSP Surya Nath Singh spoke to MiD DAY about his plans to make Noida safer but also expressed his helplessness in curbing some forms of crimeHis mission is to ensure justice maintain law and order and control crime in Noida Surya Nath Singh who replaced Amitabh Yash as the Senior Superintendent of Police in Gautam Budh Nagar about two weeks ago discussed his strategy to put the fear of the law in the minds of the criminals following Wednesday mornings shooting incident Are you satisfied with the law and order situation in NoidaI think crime is under control and Noida police is doing a great job But we still need to make certain procedures more effective What is your take on Wednesdays incident where a couple was shot on a busy road during peak morning hoursCrime can happen anywhere They could have fought in a closed room But in this case they met on the road and after argument they entered into a brawl and later he fired his gun Incidents like this cannot be stopped but we will do our best to keep a check What are the initiatives that you plan to take to make Noida a better and safer placeWe are trying to deploy police personnel at every intersection so that there is more visibility and a check on crimeu00a0 We are working aggressively to make nightlife in Noida safer So residents can look forward to a more cooperative police forceI have made sure to keep a check on repeat offenders We are maintaining records of such criminals We make sure to register each and every case and take immediate action on themNoida Past impactMarch 1 2011Pramod Chauhan a businessman who had managed to escape from the clutches of five people trying to abduct him on December 13 2010 by shooting one of the abductors was shot at and seriously injured by an unidentified assailant during morning hours at his residence in Sector 23 The needle of suspicion is on the only assailant who remained at large after the businessman bravely fought off his captorsChauhan who owns a wellknown handloom showroom in Sector 18 was attacked after he had returned from an engagement ceremony in the CapitalJanuary 5 2009A 24yearold MBA student was kidnapped and allegedly raped by a group of youngsters five of whom were arrested shortly by the police on a complaint filed by the girls friendThe girl was returning home with her friend in their car after shopping at Great India Palace mall in Sector 39 of Noida when the incident took place in the evening at Sector 121 police saidAll the accused were arrested within a few days In an FIR lodged with Noida Police the friend of the secondyear MBA student residing in South Delhis Lajpat Nagar claimed the motorcycleborne youths waylaid them near a drainage line and then attacked the victimApril 8 200824yearold Sheeba G Thomas was shot by motorcycleborne assailants in the middle of a road in Noidas Sector 31 at around midnightThe men allegedly dragged her out of the car she was driving before shooting her Reports said the victim had engaged in an altercation with the accused Thomas who hails from Thiruvalla in Kerala was earlier an air hostess with Virgin AtlanticMarch 18 2008Rakesh Kumar Anand an employee of Steel Authority of India Limited SAIL was shot dead outside his home by two men on a motorcycle No headway in the case so farFebruary 6 2008Ravinder Bhati son of UP minister shot and killed three people in broad daylight Bhati was arrested on February 29January 2007Nithari serial killings were unearthed More than 30 children had gone missing in the area since 2004 but the police failed to take notice November 12 2006Adobe CEO Naresh Guptas son Anant was kidnapped while waiting for his school bus The case was solved in five days but the main accused Chatterapal managed to escape from a Noida court in full public glare on February 4 2008 He was arrested two months laterMusical chairsSurya Nath Singh then Senior Superintendent of Police of Faziabad was appointed as the SSP of Gautam Budh Nagar on February 22 2011 in place of Amitabh Yash who has been transferred to Lucknow as SP Railways Singh has previously served as the SSP of BulandshahrIn a minor reshuffle SP HN Singh was replaced by SP Anant Dev Tiwari Anant was earlier serving as SP of Meerut and has served as SP city GhaziabadApart from SP and SSP four deputy SPs were also transferred The action was taken after Chief Minister Mayawati visited the city on February 20 and pulled up many police officials for their failure to tackle the law and order situation in NoidaFiring by PAC men on innocent farmers on February 21 which injured six people added fuel to the fire and led to the transfer of police officials