TNN | Jan 2, 2012, 02.01AM IST
GURGAON: It was New Year revelry at its worst. Party-goers, who couldn't enter the packed Sahara Mall on Saturday night, created ruckus on the road. The situation soon escalated when around 1pm, a group of youths attacked a couple and tried to abduct and molest the girl. When her partner tried to intervene, he was thrashed by the mob. They couple was rescued by the police. "We would not have come if we knew how crowd behaves here," the duo later said.
The incident took place despite the police having deployed 50 teams of 400 cops each in Gurgaon. However, all arrangements failed on MG Road, which has a host of pubs, bars and malls. Police officials said thousands of people from all parts of NCR and even Punjab and Rajasthan had descended on the place for New Year celebrations. Eyewitnesses said some inebriated youths tried to stop vehicles on the main road and even smashed the windshields of some cars. "Some of the youths were perched on top of buses and trucks. It was long pile-up on MG Road," one of them recalled.
Over a hundred cops were rushed to the spot and even appeals by the ACP (traffic) Ravindra Tomar to pacify the crowd failed. Finally, police resorted to a mild lathicharge, leaving around a dozen men injured. Some of the men who indulged in the violence said that they were not allowed to enter the mall even when they had tickets. However, some bar owners said that they were only allowing in couples and had no space to accommodate the youths. "There was no lathicharge. When the crowd went out of control, we only drove them away. In fact, they pelted stones at police and our two cops were injured. We have registered a case under section 332/353 IPC," said Jagdish Parshad, SHO of Sector-29 police station.
The incident took place despite the police having deployed 50 teams of 400 cops each in Gurgaon. However, all arrangements failed on MG Road, which has a host of pubs, bars and malls. Police officials said thousands of people from all parts of NCR and even Punjab and Rajasthan had descended on the place for New Year celebrations. Eyewitnesses said some inebriated youths tried to stop vehicles on the main road and even smashed the windshields of some cars. "Some of the youths were perched on top of buses and trucks. It was long pile-up on MG Road," one of them recalled.
Over a hundred cops were rushed to the spot and even appeals by the ACP (traffic) Ravindra Tomar to pacify the crowd failed. Finally, police resorted to a mild lathicharge, leaving around a dozen men injured. Some of the men who indulged in the violence said that they were not allowed to enter the mall even when they had tickets. However, some bar owners said that they were only allowing in couples and had no space to accommodate the youths. "There was no lathicharge. When the crowd went out of control, we only drove them away. In fact, they pelted stones at police and our two cops were injured. We have registered a case under section 332/353 IPC," said Jagdish Parshad, SHO of Sector-29 police station.
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