The National Capital Region has again failed on the crime (control) front, after the reported mass murders in the two fast growing urban areas surrounding Delhi and forming the most important, upwardly mobile and newly urbanised face of the region.Noida and Gurgaon are two such areas where in the span of sixty days mass murders have been uncovered, which have sent shivers down the spine of Delhiites and has put the millions of residents of the city on the verge of perpetual threat to life, sparing no one.In the month of November in the last year, nine people were arrested for committing horrific 35 murders since January 2006 in and around Gurgaon, one of the most modern faces of the developing districts that fall in the National Capital Region. All these murders happened in the moving cab.The modus operandi of the killings was such that it can get better of the worst nightmares. The killers usually targeted innocent people seeking lift at night and then strangled them to loot their personal valuables and dumped their bodies in the open drains.These killers who looked difficult as suspects for such gruesome murders looked for outsiders and then offered them free rides before looting them of their valuables and lives without leaving behind any clues for their heinous acts.Even before the Delhiites could muster courage to get past these heinous killings, haunting their memories another case, even more gruesome was discovered in yet another rapidly developing Noida where dozens of skeletons were unearthed bringing into light the alleged murders of scores of children and young girls from sector 31 of the Noida region.Parents and near relatives of the missing children as well as other people of the area went berserk protesting and shouting slogans against the administration after 15 skulls were unearthed at the house of sector 31 at Noida. Reports say that nearly 40 children have gone missing from sector 31 in the past 3 years.Desperate parents broke into the house where all these murders allegedly took place and were searching the premises to get any hint of their children who went missing in the recent past. Some of the people who talked on television openly reprimanded the police for its lack of vigilance and seriousness in lodging and further investigation in the cases of people who went missing.Delhi was already grappling with a challenge to cap mounting crimes against women such as rape before these mass murders were uncovered in the upcoming areas. It will not be an easy task for the law enforcing authorities to instill sense of security and confidence in the common public.
