The district administration is making high security arrangements to ensure peaceful Durga Puja this season. law and order machinery has been pressed into service with full speed to ensure peaceful conduct of the festival, with additional police force to be deployed at several strategic locations.
East Singhbhum deputy commissioner Amitabh Kaushal presided a meeting this afternoon at district collectorate and attended by senior police, excise and administrative officials.
Amitabh Kaushal said that at the meeting it was decided that Section 107 of the CrPC will be strongly enforced and anybody with criminal record of past will be asked to execute an interim bond (till Durga Puja) swearing against breaching public peace in the concerned police station.
“ We are taking every step to ensure law and order. We will also be initiating section 116 (3) of CrPC against suspicious persons against whom criminal inquiry is being carried out,” he said.
Incidentally, under section 116 (3) of CrPC a magistrate can direct the person against whom criminal inquiry has been ordered to execute a bond, with or without sureties, for keeping public peace and maintaining good behaviour.
Moreover, due to the communal clash in Mango in July, the administration is taking cautions steps. The administration to keep a watch on the activities of the local police station will be conducting on the spot raid of such illegal assembly points.
SSP East Singhbhum Anoop T. Mathew informed that senior administrative and police officials will be doing surprise inspection of such locations to arrest youths found assembly at roadside joints. Action will also be initiated against local police station officials for failing to prevent illegal assembly.
“Safety means security from criminals as well as accident prevention. We have decided to crack down on rash driving and reckless biking. Violators of road rules — be it speedsters or those without helmet — will be slapped with spot fines. The lens will be on youths, who are 18 to 25 years old,” he said.
