Delhi University becomes experimental ground for 'spying' skills'

New Delhi, June 22: Delhi University has become an experimental ground for all detective theories of Sherlock Holmes with parents first beginning to spy on their wards and the new generation striking back to find out the "spy masters" roaming in their campus.
This year the Delhi University saw many of the "spy students" hired by private detective agencies being roped in by parents to keep an eye on their wards. However, the new generation went a step ahead and approached other detective agencies to find out whether they were being spied upon.
Growing number of students are visiting detective agencies and are offering handsome amount to them to know whether their parents have hired any "spy students", mainly girls, to keep a watch on their activities.
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"Many students have approached us to find out whether their parents have hired any detective agency to spy on them," Kunwar Vikram Singh, President of Association of Detective Agencies of India, said adding, he was looking into some of such cases himself. "They are offering handsome amounts to us to take up their cases and to check whether spies are following them or not and if yes, then what information they have gathered," Singh said.
"After hearing about spying in campus, I became suspicious about my parents as for the last few days, they had started asking a lot of questions about my friends' circle and hangouts," says Ritesh (name changed), a student of Ramjas college. "Smelling something wrong, I visited one of the detective agencies and asked them to find out whether my parents have hired someone spy on me. To my shock I found that they have," Ritesh said.
A large number of parents in the capital have engaged private detectives to track their children's movements in and outside their campuses.
"Our office receives 100 calls a day on an average from concerned parents, who want to hire us to know about their child's activities. They are ready to pay any amount of money to us. Our business has grown by 50-60 per cent after this," Singh said.
"We are also receiving calls from many corporate houses to send these girl detectives to their offices to find out any corrupt activities."
The detectives also stumbled upon some frightening cases, with drug abuse, alcohol and blackmailing being involved, leading to serious consequences for the students.
"Our detectives cracked a case where a north campus (Delhi University) girl from a decent family got involved with some people, who used to throw late night parties at a farm house in Chhatarpur area of the city. They provide girls alcohol and drugs and have fun with them," Singh said.
"When this girl's parents came to know about her frequent late night hangouts, they approached us and when one of our campus detectives revealed all information about her, they were shocked to know that she has become a part of a drug abuse racket.
"We rescued 10-15 other girls of DU campus from the racket and the person running it was handed over to the police," he said.
With the new admission season going on, the spy girls too have taken a break.
"As soon as the new session begins, more girls will be hired by us and our work will go on," Singh added. (PTI)