Why 25-km question haunts cops

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NOIDA: The UP ATS has denied that they chased the two terrorists for 25 km though local police sources say that's what happened. A 25-km chase
would show the cops in poor light because they would have crossed five Ghaziabad and Noida police posts on their way to the encounter site.

It would mean that the men at these posts either did not spot the Maruti of the terrorists going abnormally fast or just did not bother to pursue them or stop them. All these police posts are equipped with equipment to slow the car down and take control of it.

Not that it's an improbable thing to happen. On January 4, a Delhi University student had been abducted from a fair in Sector 55 in Noida. The woman who was whisked away in a Santro car, with the woman's mother and several other buyers and vendors as witness, was driven round Noida and Ghaziabad for more than three hours, Then, said a Noida police officer, "The victim was abandoned at a site in Ghaziabad's Sahibabad police station area. We had tracked the criminals all the way.''

But he did not say why the checkposts were not ordered to nab the vehicle on its way. And this chase had been all of at least 45 km. And, it could have been much longer as the culprits had been on the move all the while.

In the case of Saturday night's chase, if it did happen, Ghaziabad's Vijaynagar police post and Noida's Model Town, Sector 60, Sector 37 and Amity police posts were in the way of the terrorists. It would mean that nobody bothered to stop them.

"We have allowed the four Kashmiri shawl traders to go after questioning them. They have found to be bonafide traders,'' said a senior cop about the day's developments. The traders had been detained on Sunday for questioning.

source : the times of india