A cop asks mall goers to head home as night curfew returns to Bhubaneswar on Saturday
BHUBANESWAR: The twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack together put up 49 police check posts at vantage points as the state began night curfew in all districts from Saturday.
“Mostly, police will be deployed at the check posts but our squads will also be present. Except those falling under exempted categories, people won’t be allowed to move after 9 pm,” said BMC commissioner Prem Chandra Chaudhury.
Weekend shutdown has started in 10 western districts bordering Chhattisgarh and the timing of night curfew in those districts has been changed from 10 pm-5am to 6pm-5am. There is no weekend shutdown in rural areas of these 10 districts. In the other 20 districts, including the twin cities, night curfew will be in force from 9 pm to 5 am every day.
Vehicles illegally parked under a flyover in the Bomikhal area
BHUBANESWAR: The commissionerate police will embark on a unique mission to decongest road and flyovers in the city by removing abandoned vehicles parked at the busy squares for days and months from Saturday.
According to the plan, the police will first alert the owners of the vehicles through the public address system. The police have surveyed Rasulgarh Square and Baramunda Square, where the bus terminal is located to decongest both the areas.
The public announcement urging people to take their vehicles (both two wheelers and four wheelers) away from the roadside will run for two days. If action is not taken, police will tow the vehicles to park them in a common yard.