More curbs on all pvt vehicles in Surat

TNN | Updated: Apr 6, 2020, 11:38 IST

SURAT: Surat city police commissioner, R B Brahmbhatt, issued a notification banning the movement of all types of vehicles on Sunday. People will have to prove they had a dire need to use their vehicles.
The notification will come into effect from noon on April 6 and will remain in force till April 14. Exemption has been granted to security vehicles; treasury vehicles; vehicles used for ferrying essential items such as petroleum, CNG, LPG, and PNG; disaster management vehicles; electricity companies’ vehicles, post office vehicles, information department vehicles and emergency vehicles.
The notification also grants exemption to medical services vehicles, chemists’ vehicles, fair price shops’ vehicles, vehicles carrying essential food items, fire department vehicles, vehicles used for quarantining, funeral vehicles, vehicles taking patients for treatment and vehicles with passes issued by authority. The notification says violations will attract actions under section 188 of the IPC.