As part of the campaign aimed at making Haridwar free of polythene, the Haridwar District Magistrate Deepak Rawat conducted a drive here on Thursday. The District Magistrate conducted raids at various places which resulted in the seizing of prohibited items from five large godowns with the district magistrate also directing officials of the Haridwar Municipal Corporation to initiate action for penalising those found guilty of flouting the ban on polythene. The district magistrate further warned that in case complaint is received and polythene is found in the future, a first information report will be registered and necessary action will be taken. The drive headed by the district magistrate started at the Jwalapur Peeth Bazaar where the godown of Deepti Traders was raided. A large quantity of the banned polythene was found stocked at this location. After this, a godown located along the Roorkee Road was roaded. The person in charge had escaped from the scene on getting information about the raid so the lock on the godown was broken. The officials found a large quantity of the prohibited polythene items in this godown too. On finding the shop of a polythene wholesaler at Kankhal Chowk Bazaar closed, the team of officials went to check a godown at the home of one Mukesh Saini. The officials said that the team found a considerable quantity of polythene stacked in sacks at this godown. later the official team raided the godown of Kalu at Kumargadha, Kankhal. The owner of the godown- Kalu was found to be absconding from the site so necessary action was initiated for seizing the godown. The confiscated goods were transported by truck on the directions of the Mukhya Nagar Adhikari of Haridwar. The Mukhya Nagar Adhikari, Ashok Pandey, city magistrate Jaybharat, sub divisional magistrate Manish Kumar, Tehsildar Sunaina and police were also among those present in the team which conducted the raids across the area on Thursday.