Policemen in Noida are risking their lives in the line of duty, case in point being Dalelpur village where they reach by crossing the Yamuna river either on a boat ride or on foot.
Dalelpur is a sparsely populated village and the only village in the region which falls on the other side of Yamuna in Haryana but is still a part of Uttar Pradesh. The only way to reach it is to get on the sole privately-arranged boat that sails on the river to fetch people between the Yakutpur and Dalelpur sides of the Yamuna or a road trip via Delhi and Faridabad that is a journey of 70 km on one side.
The village, bereft of roads and power supply, among other basic amenities, falls under the limits of Knowledge Park police station in Noida, whose personnel have been crossing over the polluted, stench-emanating river for years now.