These guards manually check people entering or exiting the city with luggage. Also, women passengers go unchecked as there is no female constable to frisk the passengers.
As the festive season is just around the corner and city gears up to celebrate festival of lights, the security arrangements at the Anand Vihar Inter State Bus Terminal (ISBT) poses a sorry picture. The important inter-junction in the Ghazibad area is ill-equipped on the security front. Three constables along with private security guards posted at the check post, which leads to Uttarakhand region.
These guards manually check people entering or exiting the city with luggage. Also, women passengers go unchecked as there is no female constable to frisk the passengers.
The security personnel at Anand Vihar bus terminus, lack metal detectors, dog squad.
Sitting on a plastic stole, two police constables sip tea, while another two private security guards, scan, stop and check a person carrying red blanket folded in a transparent bag along, with two other luggage bags, two minutes later the man is cleared with by private guards, however the policemen still sip tea.
Random checks on passengers is the norm here as most walk past the security without any frisking.
"We are not checking families, and since there is no women police personnel here, the ladies are also exempted from checking, however we make sure that anyone who looks suspicious goes through a strict security check," said a police constable while checking a sweet box carried by a passenger.
The loopholes in security check are even more serious especially during the festive season, as the number of passengers traveling increases many fold on these days, making terminus a crowded place and without security checks, this would be easy target for anyone with evil intentions.
However, regular passengers from the bus terminal say that on normal days the ISBT does not even have these six constables for security duty.
"I leave for Rampur every Monday night after purchasing goods from Sadar market for my shop, but never in four years I have been checked by anyone, last year I even carried fire crackers for my children in a bus," said Keshav Shyampuria, who owns a stationary shop in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh.
DEADLY PAST
- In 2005, as the Delhi’s markets were in festive celebrations crowded with shoppers when terrorists triggered a series of blasts, leaving a trail of destruction, death, blood, limbs and fear.
- The series of blast started after the first blast at 5.38pm in front of the Chhah Tooti Chowk in Paharganj’s Nehru Market
- The market was full of Diwali shoppers when the bomb went off near a jewellery shop.
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