aurangabad city commissioner of police nikhil gupta on thursday held a meeting with the officebearers of the aurangabad chapter of confederation of real estate developers association of india credai and appealed to them to not give in to the demands made by extortionists and blackmailersthe realtors have been asked to come forward and lodge a complain against such elements to reinstate confidence amongst the builders and developers gupta also launched a handinhand initiative under which coordination between police and builders businessmen and traders will be improvedauthorities said the meeting between city police chief and credai members apex body of real estate developers in india was the first since the break out of the pandemicsome builders and developers raised the issue of safety after the alleged contract killing of nandeds leading builder sanjay biyani this is when gupta decided to take steps to address their concerns a police officer saidduring the meeting held at the credai office gupta gave assurance of helping the builders with all legal provisions and asked them to take all possible steps for security and selfprotection gupta said he was also open to granting firearm licenses to the builders if they need it in addition he insisted on taking series of steps including installation of cctv cameras at their homes offices and parking premises