City police on Friday embarked on a drive against couples, most of them minor, indulging in obscenity at Jubilee Park. The drive, following directive of city SP Chandan Jha, was led by DSP (crimecontrol) Jacinta Kerketta, began at around 11 am near the Mughal Garden, Rose Garden and behind the Children’s Center.
Directives have also been issued to the Mahila Thana at Sakchi and to both Sakchi and Bistupur police stations to do rounds of the park regularly and take action against those couples who create obscenity.
“We have issued directive to the police officials at Mahila thana and at Bistupur and Sakchi for increasing patrolling at the Jubilee Park not only after dusk but also in the morning and afternoon. The monitoring and action against young couples creating obscenity at the park will carried out on a regular basis from today,” said city SP Chandan Jha. Mahila Thana police station in-charge, Poornima Anand said that they used to carry out regular raids inside the park during evening but henceforth will also carry out raids in the morning and afternoon.The city police will no longer be silent spectators to young lovers having fun at public places.The policemen in plain clothes, with baton and torch will move around in the parks to guard the girls. In addition to this police patrolling will be increased at weekends at the park areas.
“We have been receiving regular complaints. Eve-teasing cases have witnessed an increase at the picnic spots so much so that the district women cell of the police has planned to work in coordination with the respective local police stations to prevent incidents of eve-teasing in the picnic spots,” said an official of the district women’s cell.