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Enclave baddies will be back if cops relax!
NEHRU ENCLAVE brothels have not yet closed down. They have just shifted their base to the nearby colony after Hindustan Times crusade brought the police and the LDA sleuths running to the Enclave. However, if the police relaxed its vigil, they will return to their old den safe and sound, residents of Vishwas Khand said and wondered as to why despite having specific information about the brothels the police authorities waited for the LDA sleuths to move in first.
NEHRU ENCLAVE brothels have not yet closed down. They have just shifted their base to the nearby colony after Hindustan Times crusade brought the police and the LDA sleuths running to the Enclave.
However, if the police relaxed its vigil, they will return to their old den safe and sound, residents of Vishwas Khand said and wondered as to why despite having specific information about the brothels the police authorities waited for the LDA sleuths to move in first.
“The LDA and police drive started thereafter and evictions were carried out,” said a resident witness of the nearby colony.
Talking to the HT Lucknow Live, some genuine residents in the colony confirmed that they had seen the girls and the women being shifted in vehicles during late in the night. They were all taken to the two houses and a guesthouse located in nearby locality.
The residents complained that the police were still not patrolling in the colony while the hooligans were moving around the colony to break into the flats occupied by LDA officials during the eviction drive.
A resident of Premayan block even said two labourers broke open locks of two flats and had started living there. There was nobody from the LDA or the local police to keep a check if those flats occupied recently were not grabbed again.
The news that brothels were running in four flats of the various blocks and other illegal activities rampant in the colony was first published in the Hindustan Times. Despite having specific information about brothels running in which flats the cops and the LDA team did not initiate any action saying that the flats were allotted in the names of some Lucknow University student leaders and the LDA employees. They also claimed that the drive was to evict the illegal occupants only while the groups living there were bona fide tenants of the flats.
While the LDA staff said it was job of the police to keep check on illegal activities the cops said that the LDA should force the owners of the flat to throw such tenants out of their houses.
Though the police and the LDA officials did not take cognizance of the brothels, the gangs running the racket feared action following regular news items about the menace being published in this newspaper. And, all four groups active in the trade shifted their base from Nehru Enclave to a nearby locality four days back.
