Puri district admin asks arms holders to give up weapons forward of Pipili by-election

By Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR: Puri district administration has requested all licensed gun homeowners to deposit their firearms with the police forward of Pipili by-election scheduled on April 17.

There are about 150 licensed arms holders in Pipili meeting phase and about 30 per cent of them have up to now deposited their weapons with the police.

Director General of Police (DGP) Abhay has directed officers to accentuate prophylactic measures like bounding down of routine offenders underneath Sections 107 and 110 of CrPC, seize unlawful arms and illicit liquor and execute non-bailable warrants to make sure free, honest, clear, neutral and incident-free by-poll.

The police have already booked 504 individuals underneath Section 107 CrPC, 25 routine offenders underneath 110 CrPC and have executed/disposed of 73 non-bailable warrants. Police are additionally conducting raids at varied areas in Pipili to test the sale of illicit liquor.

During a assessment assembly of the safety preparations by way of video conferencing on Wednesday, the DGP careworn on strict enforcement of mannequin code of conduct and adherence to Election Commission of India’s tips and Covid-19 protocols for police and safety preparations together with visits of VIPs and VVIPs.

ADG (Law and Order) YK Jethwa, Intelligence Director Radha Kishan Sharma, DIG Central Range Jai Narayan Pankaj and Puri SP Kanwar Vishal Singh have been current.

Jethwa reviewed the general deployment plan and instructed to boost patrolling by participating cellular squads and flying squads and to conduct thorough checking by organising nakas (test factors) round Pipili constituency.

Sharma shared the intelligence associated to the by-election and urged the DIG and SP to intently monitor the regulation and order scenario.

Security preparations for VIPs and VVIPs scheduled to go to Pipili for campaigning, strict and immediate motion for election-related circumstances, mapping of vital and susceptible cubicles and implementing steps accordingly have been mentioned within the assembly.

At least 15 platoons of Odisha Police and one firm of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) might be deployed to make sure clean and incident-free by-poll.