Staff Correspondent
Port Blair, Apr 09: The Science Centre Road leading to Corbyn’s Cove has once again become a hot-spot for desperate lovers, who often indulge into immoral activities, making the said stretch of road a high risk area. Mostly at late evening hours, one can find several bikes hidden inside, road side bushes. The owners of these bikes remain mostly untraced but often they could be seen coming out of bushes with their partners.
One wonders why these love-birds take such great risk of going inside these deep bushes at late night hours, after carefully hiding their bikes. Of course not for the sake of tourism promotion or for attending any yoga class, the reason is known to everybody but people prefer to overlook and keep their eyes closed.
Though love affair is entirely personal matter and media should not go for social policing but the problem is that such acts often results in attacks by outsiders, rape and other crimes.
Every islander is well aware that nearly 8-10 years back the Corbyn’s Cove road was infamous for such crimes. Even a tourist was raped long back on the said stretch of road.
These kind of desperate acts by lovers at late night and late evening hours, attract criminals, who hunt for their prey after fall of night and these criminals often attack innocent women.
Though PCR Vans often patrol on the said stretch of road but it is very easy to identify a PCR Van from distance and escape away from the spot before the PCR Van could arrive.
“What if some of these people who frequent these areas, at late night hours, are police jawans? Will the staffs in PCR Van take action against them? To find out the truth some senior officers must conduct surprise inspection of the road atleast twice a month and he should come in a normal vehicle without red light,” said an evening walker, who does not wish to disclose his identity.
“If we can see these love birds often on the road during late evening hours, how come PCR van miss them? Before the area become totally unsafe for family people, the police department must act,” said the evening walker.
