India, Jan. 16 -- The residents of about 12 housing societies in Sector 43 have alleged that valuables worth crores had been stolen from a banquet hall in the area since its inauguration in 2013.

"Built at about Rs.7 crore, the hall has been left without a proper security system for all these years. Today, only the empty building remains, and that too in a dilapidated state. Our repeated complaints to the local police were not taken seriously," said retired brigadier (VSN) SKS Rana, a resident of nearby Navyug society.

Vasu Sashti, a representative of the Sanskriti Apartments' residents' welfare association (RWA), said: "We would hear loud noises of someone breaking into the premises, cutting fire pipelines, and extinguishers in 2020. T...