Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Garhwal Range, Amit Sinha, has directed the districts’ police officers to take appropriate steps in their respective districts for ensuring peaceful conduct of Eid-ul-Fitr, scheduled to be held on Friday.
Sub-divisional magistrates and circle officers have been directed to conduct physical verification of sensitive areas in their respective jurisdictions and deploy additional police force there, he added. Sinha said that large number of Muslims would offer prayer at mosques in different localities.
The police officers have been directed to make elaborate arrangement for the city and its adjacent areas forpeaceful celebration of the festival. All the police stations and posts were instructed to ensure extra security measures in all the sensitive areas including the Eid congregation venues. Besides deployment of additional forces, detective vigilance was intensified at busy market points and shopping malls.
Sinha has directed circle officers to visit Eid congregation venues and find out whether these venues were disputed earlier and take necessary steps accordingly. The Police officers need to ensure that patrolling is intensified at mixed population areas. They were directed to ensure that no one violates the law. The police officers have been directed to prepare action plan and ensure its effective execution, he added.