Villagers In Gurugram Force Authorities To Construct Broken Road At Gunpoint, 30 Booked

As many as 30 residents of Naurangpur village were booked after they held officials of the Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GDMA) at gunpoint and forced them to construct a broken road overnight.

Villagers hold authorities at gunpoint over broken road

Among those booked are Hoshiar Singh, a former block Samiti chairman. Locals reportedly obstructed the construction work of a master dividing road in Sector 78/79, threatened officials, and coerced them to construct a patch of the road.

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While police said Singh was the main instigator as he wanted to get a road constructed in front of a petrol pump he owns, he refuted those allegations, the Hindustan Times reported. Singh said villagers wanted the road constructed at the spot because over 20 mishaps had taken place there in the last couple of months.

He levied serious charges against the authorities and said they paid no heed to their requests to reconstruct the road.

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Police register case against villagers

A complaint against the residents who held officials 'hostage' was filed by a sub-divisional officer of GMDA.

¡°A private contractor, a team of GMDA and workers were on the site when at least 30 villagers came and started abusing the staff members. They assaulted the workers and held the team at gunpoint," a complainant told Hindustan Times.

"They took away three machines and construction material and forced them to lay a 50-metre patch of road in front of a petrol pump on Tauru road,¡± they added.

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Police have registered a case under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), including 148 (riots), 149 (unlawful assembly), 186 (obstructing public servants in discharge of public functions), and 323 (causing hurt). 353 (assault or criminal force to deter a public servant from discharge of his duty), 427 (causing damage) and 506 (criminal intimidation).

According to Rajender Singh, station house officer of the Kherki Daula police station, they are conducting an investigation and raids to apprehend the suspects.

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