NEW DELHI: If you are a DU fresher, do watch out. Don’t be alarmed if you are told that your parents may come to know all that you have been doing with your new set of friends. There is a possibility that a “friend” whom you have been trusting may be working for a private eye, guarding you from all the big city “dangers” lurking around you – alcohol, party drugs and even the party you might be attending; in other words, anything that your parents think might “harm” you.
The parents – though a majority are still not so paranoid – are apparently ready to spend Rs 35,000-Rs 50,000 on private detectives to keep their wards under the lens for the first fortnight of their new college life. Interestingly, these ‘detectives’ are mostly college seniors who help the main agency with “valuable inputs” and even act as “counsellors” for students whenever they are in a dilemma dealing with the new challenges they face. This is the way they earn some pocket money.
