Slain UP policeman's widow objects to Sanjay Dutt's film Zila Ghaziabad

Ghaziabad, Feb 14 : Neeru Singh, the widow of slain UP police inspector Preetam Singh, has strongly objected to the Sanjay Dutt-starrer film Zila Ghaziabad saying the martyr has been portrayed in a wrong light by the producer Vinod Bachchan and director Anand Kumar.Preetam Singh told a Hindi daily that the producer-director of the film neither took her permission, nor did he collect information about the personal life of her husband. “What's the point in making a film on my husband's life? There are several policemen who laid their lives while fighting crime. Then why a film on my husband”, asks Neeru Singh. She alleged that the producer of the film made this film with only a single motive: to make money.“First of all, they should have made a film on a martyr policeman. Secondly, they should have sought information about his personal life from the family. My husband's name should not have been used in the film”, the widow said. A no-nonsense police inspector, Preetam Singh was posted at several police stations of Ghaziabd district. On November 5, 1998, he was shot dead outside his house in Kavi Nagar, Ghaziabad. The film is based on the Nineties gangwar between Satbir Gujar gang and Mahendra Fauji gang. It was inspector Preetam Singh who liquidated both the gangs. In Zila Ghaziabd, Sanjay Dutt dons the khaki to enact Preetam Singh's role, while Arshad Warsi is Mahendra Fauji and Vivek Oberoi is Satbir Gujar. Several local organisations have also objected to the title of the film, saying that the producer has tried to portray Ghaziabad as a crime city.