The villagers near Sohna on Wednesday protested on the Gurugram-Alwar National Highway as the police failed to trace an abducted 17-year-old girl and her kidnappers. This disrupted traffic for several hours.
The girl was allegedly kidnapped last week. The villagers, including women from Baluda village, gathered near Ambedkar Chowk and blocked the highway, creating a massive traffic jam.
The villagers ended their protest after police assured them of tracing the victim in two days time.
Incidents like this, including the abduction of a 30-year-old Delhi-based executive Samarth Kohli in Gurugram on Monday, may have raised questions over the safety of citizens in the city, however, what is shocking that these incidents occur at a busy stretch of Sohna Road.
Incidents of burglaries, chain snatchings, molestation, open- drinking and road rage has become cases that are dealt on daily basis and are not a new affair in the area.
In September 2016, 32-year-old Sushma Rathi, wife of gangster Ashok Rathi, was shot dead at Sohna Road after her husband hired sharpshooters from Mewat to kill her.
The residents, especially the villages around Sohna Road, however, are not surprised by these criminal acts.
Most of the local residents around Sohna Road highlight development in the last 15 years which has reduced the rate of crimes.
"While things may have improved in recent years, there was a time when people used to even fear to come to this area.
As Sohna road was one of the first points of entrance in Gurugram, it provided an easy escape route to the dacoits from Mewat and Rajasthan who used to loot people and then escape to their native places," said Bhim Singh, a resident of Tigra village at Sohna Road.