Under fire for not providing adequate security to businessmen and senior executives in Greater Noida, the police today swung into action and are learnt to have said that business rivalry could be a motive behind the murder of Graziano Transmissioni CEO Lalit Kumar Chowdhury on September 23.
Association of Greater Noida Industries (AGNI) president Aditya Ghildyal, who was present at a meeting with the police, said, “The murder of Lalit Kumar Chowdhury should be solved at the earliest. The culprits should be put behind the bars without any delay.”
Meanwhile, the UP police, accused of having a laid-back attitude by the industrialists and the locals alike, will now be on its toes as a software developed by HCL will make it impossible for the cops to ignore calls made by distressed industrialists.
If a call to the local police station is not attended at the fourth ring, the fifth ring would land up at the mobile phone of the senior superintendent of police and the sixth ring will be transferred to the mobile phone of the director general of police. “The police should respond immediately to the calls. However, it is not the case with the UP police,” said a senior executive of a Greater Noida-based MNC.
AGNI, which is spearheading the demands of Gautam Buddha Nagar industries, has come out with a 19-point agenda to be fulfilled by the UP administration and police. The demands include allowing industrialists to keep licensed revolvers. “The licensed revolver will help us save ourselves,” said Ghildyal.
In a relief to the workers who travel in the company bus, the UP police has assured that no bus would be stopped for checking at night. It had been alleged that checking at night is done to take bribes from the company as well as the bus operator. “Our buses go daily from the same route. If the police want to check our vehicles, they should do so during day hours. At night, the only purpose of the police is to get their palms greased,” said Ghildyal.