It’s a murder prone area and no one will take you inside after 7pm,” an auto-rickshaw driver told this correspondent. “I can drop you on the main road and from there you have to go on your own. The auto drivers unanimously told this newspaper that it’s not safe to be in these neighbourhoods after the night sets in. And in case of Madangir, they by default assume the passenger either wants to visit a cheap prostitute or buy marijuana. We are stuck here as other places in the city are costly to live,” said a resident of Dakshin Puri, who didn’t want to be named.Įven the auto-rickshaw drivers invariably refuse to pick up a ride to Dakshin Puri after the dark. Chain snatching is nothing, we often see a dead body lying in drains. “We often hear firing and quickly lock ourselves inside our homes. While the residents of Dakshinpuri are scared to raise a voice against continuous gang wars in the area, the street vendors on the dingy lanes of Madangir are tired of shelling out hefty amounts to these young goons in order to put up their stalls. The labyrinths of Madangir and Dakhsin Puri lead to the hotbeds of the most notorious juvenile criminals in the national capital. As a result, more and more youth from such areas are slipping into a world of crime at a very tender age,” the police official said. Moreover, the government has not been able to engage the youths’ energy productively. “Areas like Madangir and Dakshin Puri are characterised by poverty and lack of basic services like good education. The police further told this newspaper that the lack of basic services like education and decent living standards coupled with government’s inability to engage the youth productively is pushing the youngsters into crime. On being asked about the specifics of the juvenile, the police revealed that the juvenile justice laws not only provide confidentiality protection to minors but also prohibit the police from recording the crime. Police claims that the juvenile was first apprehended in 2014, when he was 14 years old, in connection with a murder of a man in Ambedkar Nagar area of South Delhi. The minor was allegedly involved in four cases, including murder and attempt to murder. ĭelhi’s South-East district police recently apprehended the 17-year old with two country-made pistols and two live cartridges from Madangir area. The juveniles in these areas get involved in serious crimes like murder, robbery and rape as early as 14 years of age, a police official told The Sunday Guardian. It’s our area not theirs),” said a teenager, who identified himself as Zunaid and was openly selling marijuana on a busy street of Madangir with a police van not more than 200 metres away. ( Police is scared of us and not the other way around. Yeh humara ilaaka hai yaha koi tension nahi hai. “Police humse darti hai, hum police se nahi. These young boys are neither afraid of the police nor the law. The Sunday Guardian investigation discovered that the area, which was once home to four notorious gangs of Delhi, is now reeling under the threat of young criminals. The recent arrest of a minor, a resident of Madangir, in a murder case in Neb Sarai area of South Delhi has once again brought back the focus on the most infamous neighbourhood of the national capital-Madangir and Dakshinpuri.
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