Cops step up vigil in Steel City colonies

TNN | Apr 13, 2020, 05:00 IST

Jamshedpur: With reports of lockdown violations coming in from colony areas, police on Sunday increased vigil in residential areas apart from the arterial roads of the Steel City. To ensure compliance, more PCR vans and ‘tiger’ mobiles were pressed into service.
From March 24, when the lockdown was implemented, to April 12, nearly 500 cases related to the violation of Section 144 CrPC have been lodged in Jamshedpur. DC Ravi Shankar Shukla and SSP Anoop Birthare asked police and magistrates to strictly enforce the lockdown. They also asked police to make sure that baring those who have a genuine reason to be out on the streets, nobody is seen on the streets.
Deputy SP, Composite Control Room (CCR), Arvind Kumar said, “We received reports that elderly persons are coming out for morning walks and youths are strolling on the streets in the evening while bikers are using the peripheral roads and dishonouring the lockdown.”
Lockdown violations have been reported from colonies that are situated in the suburban areas under Pursudih, Birsanagar, Baridih and Jaduguda police station areas and residential colonies in the urban areas of Kadma, Golmuri, Mango, Azadnagar and others.
A TOI team visited Marine Drive on Sunday and saw slum dwellers living close to the Kharkhai and Domuhani rivers flocking to the place in groups, disobeying even social distancing norms.
“Children sometimes go out by informing us that they will stay close to the house, particularly in the evenings, but wander off to places,” conceded a 57-year-old father, an entrepreneur and a resident of Mango, requesting anonymity.
The DC also asked Tata Steel to join hands with the district administration agencies for door-to-door visits for awareness on Covid-19 among the people and asked everyone venturing out of the house to compulsorily wear face masks.