Series of Murders in Delhi Hotels, Police Install CCTVs to Keep a Watch
New Delhi (India):
After a series of murders in Paharganj, most of them still unsolved, the Delhi Police have decided to install CCTVs in the area.Around 15 cameras will be installed at all the entry, exit points of Paharganj, a popular tourist haunt where over 200 hotels and guest houses are located. The cameras will be instaled in two months and the Paharganj Police Station will be the main monitoring room.
But footage can also be viewed from any remote location like the Central Police Control Room, officers said.
The police also plan to install similar cameras in Chandni Chowk. Karol Bagh is already under the CCTV eye. The trafic police too are planning to install cameras at key junctions to observe traffic.But in Paharganj, the focus will be on visitors to hotels and restaurants and maintaining law and order, a senior officer said. The police believe the move will help solve murders like that of a man who was beheaded in a hotel more that a week ago. The victim's identity is still a mystery. So is that of his companion, who police believe walked out of the hotel carrying his head in a suitcase.
The cameras will also help in curbing petty crimes like eve-teasing, pickpocketting, touting and even soliciting, the officer said.MURDERS IN PAHARGANJ HOTELSSeptember 2005 -- Headless body of a 45-year-old man found in UK hotel in Paharganj. The victim had checked in with another man who had identified himself as an army man.June 2005 -- Body of woman found in Hotel Maharaja Castle, Paharganj.
Her paramour had killed her, as their relation turnhed sour. The accused, Pramod, was arrested.March 2004 - 40-year-old Luxembourg national Wrigler Jeans found dead in mysterious circumstances at Amar Hotel in Paharganj2002 - A Punjab travel agent, Ashok Kumar Sahu who was working as a helper at a Paharganj hotel murdered his wife and two daughters and tried to commit suicide.
August 2001 - Body of a Russian national Victor who checked in at a Paharganj hotel, found in SeelampurJuly 2001 - Body of a 20-year-old DU student who had checked in at a Paharganj hotel with two men, found in east Delhi.
Sept 27, 2005
Newindpress, India
New Delhi (India):After a series of murders in Paharganj, most of them still unsolved, the Delhi Police have decided to install CCTVs in the area.Around 15 cameras will be installed at all the entry, exit points of Paharganj, a popular tourist haunt where over 200 hotels and guest houses are located. The cameras will be instaled in two months and the Paharganj Police Station will be the main monitoring room.
But footage can also be viewed from any remote location like the Central Police Control Room, officers said.
The police also plan to install similar cameras in Chandni Chowk. Karol Bagh is already under the CCTV eye. The trafic police too are planning to install cameras at key junctions to observe traffic.But in Paharganj, the focus will be on visitors to hotels and restaurants and maintaining law and order, a senior officer said. The police believe the move will help solve murders like that of a man who was beheaded in a hotel more that a week ago. The victim's identity is still a mystery. So is that of his companion, who police believe walked out of the hotel carrying his head in a suitcase.
The cameras will also help in curbing petty crimes like eve-teasing, pickpocketting, touting and even soliciting, the officer said.MURDERS IN PAHARGANJ HOTELSSeptember 2005 -- Headless body of a 45-year-old man found in UK hotel in Paharganj. The victim had checked in with another man who had identified himself as an army man.June 2005 -- Body of woman found in Hotel Maharaja Castle, Paharganj.
Her paramour had killed her, as their relation turnhed sour. The accused, Pramod, was arrested.March 2004 - 40-year-old Luxembourg national Wrigler Jeans found dead in mysterious circumstances at Amar Hotel in Paharganj2002 - A Punjab travel agent, Ashok Kumar Sahu who was working as a helper at a Paharganj hotel murdered his wife and two daughters and tried to commit suicide.
August 2001 - Body of a Russian national Victor who checked in at a Paharganj hotel, found in SeelampurJuly 2001 - Body of a 20-year-old DU student who had checked in at a Paharganj hotel with two men, found in east Delhi.
Sept 27, 2005
Newindpress, India
