Director General of Police, Javeed Ahmed sounded an alert asking the cops to take all necessary security measures as well as preventive steps to ensure peaceful celebration of festival of colours `Holi’. He also asked the sleuths of the Intelligence Agencies to remain on their toes especially as terror threats looms large on such occasions.
In a circular dispatched to all the district police chief and other senior officers of the State including the cops of the Government Railway Policeon Monday, Zaveed Ahmed said that people tried to create trouble during festivals particularly during Holi in which the people threw colours resulting into retaliation from the opposite side particularly if the person belong to some other community. He said that many time such incidents resulted into major communal clashes so such cases should be dealt seriously and immediate action should be ensured to avert any untoward incident.
Ahmed said that similarly many persons create mischief by burning the `Holika’ prior to ritual schedule which also led to clashes. He further alerted the cops asking them to ensure that no one should throw colours which created trouble, no one should threw stone or any other object on anyone particularly in trains and other passengers vehicles as it caused serious injuries, no objectionable material used to play Holi etc.
DGP also remained the cops that they should take preventive steps by bounding down those miscreants who had created trouble during festival on any early occasion. Besides, he also asked the cops to check drunken youths from creating any kind of trouble during the festival.
Alerting the cops of inputs on any kind of terror activity in the State, Zaveed said that adequate force should be deployed on all sensitive and crowded points, like markets, bus and railway stations, theaters etc, and proper anti-sabotage check should be made in case of any apprehension of trouble. He asked the officers to launch an awareness drive, communicating the people not to touch any unclaimed object and instead immediately informed the police control room or nearest police station so necessary measures could be taken to avert any kind of tragedy.