new delhi for the past month vasant kunj residents have lived in fear not knowing if they would be the next target of burglars using lock cutters and crowbars to force their way into homes alarmed by the frequency of the robberies including of a brand new suv from c9 pocket the residents welfare associations of c and d sectors have now advised residents to ensure additional safety measures whenever leaving homepolice said that there were 34 robberies and have registered cases of criminal trespass and house burglaries the residents however complained that there were actually around 20 robberies and the cops had registered cases of a single day as onesnehlata rathee president of the d6 pocket rwa claimed that even on wednesday the residents had held a man who had entered their pocket posing as a labourer but was found clicking videos of the buildings when we caught him he claimed to be playing a mobile game instead we discovered videos of the buildings in his phone later said ratheethe people of the gated colonies arent quite happy with the police response harjinder singh saroha vicechairperson federation of residents welfare associations of vasant kunj said the lack of interaction between the sho of vasant kunj north police station and the residents had resulted in poor coordination between the cops and colonies security personnelwith regular interactions between the colonies and police missing we have been forced to take our own security measures such as asking the guards to click photographs of suspicious vehicles and their drivers and to keep a record of people entering or exiting the colonies said sarohathe burglars captured on cctv footage struck between august 7 and august 9 targeting empty houses the cctv films show them breaking locks with a cutter and ransacking the apartments we had to go to meet an ailing relative said d6 pockets d p singh one of the robbery victims when we returned we found the lock broken and the house ransacked and cash and jewellery at home gonethat same night the criminals also entered the houses of a woman a serving cbi officer and an office fleeing with money and ornaments rathee said that they had made repeated appeals for the removal of debris along the colony walls with no success the burglars had made use of the debris to scale the wallthere is a forested area behind the colony and this makes for a handy getaway route for the miscreants pointed out rathee the mud and garbage dumped on the other side of the wall has made it easy for them to enter the colony i have been writing to all government departments regarding the security but no action has been taken so far she however appreciated the efforts of the sho of vasant kunj south police station in placing two beat constables to monitor the wooded areap prem nath resident of c9 pocket where the burglars were caught by the cctv cameras breaking the door locks suggested police