Thereafter, they had demanded a strong security system.

But the residents continue to feel vulnerable in the absence of any concrete steps.

Unitech developed the colony and looks after the security of the colony as well as other welfare services and collects maintenance charges from residents in lieu of that.

In several letters, written to the management from time to time, the office bearers of the residents'welfare association (RWA), South City-II, have urged them to bolster the security set up in the area,and look into the verification of the security guards deployed in the colony.

The RWA has also urged the authority to check whether the security guards are competent enough and well trained.

"This is the big concern today," said Mukesh Khanna, vice president of the RWA.

"These security guards could not even catch the culprits who escaped from the front gate even as women kept on screaming,"added Khanna.

Incidents of crime in the colony have been consistently on the rise but the local police have remained a mute spectator.

"We have held a meeting with senior officials in the management, apprising them of the security issue," said S.N.Bharadwaj, president of the RWA.

"We are likely to hold a meeting with the RWA office bearers in this regardand will discuss all these points there.

In the past as well, we have always addressed the issues that the RWA office bearers have brought before us," said Col (retd) S. Bhati, security incharge, Unitech management.

Former Gurgaon Police Commissioner Mohinder Lal had recently put a question mark on the veracity and services provided by private security agencies in the city.