Given the recent shoot-up in crimes in the city by unknown miscreants, the Commissionerate Police have decided to keep data of tenants staying in different locations of the city. Commissioner of Police RP Sharma revealed this while discussing with the slum dwellers of Salia Sahi here on Sunday.
In a public-police interface held in Salia Sahi, people of the slum demanded a police outpost in the area as 1.2 lakh people are staying in the slum. They also demanded the police to check illegal liquor business and anti-social activities in the slum area.
Police in the meeting said the owners of the houses would submit data regarding the identity of their tenants with photos if possible. At first, the exercise will start from ward-15 of the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) and the tenants would be asked to furnish their identity details by September 10, said the police sources. “We will start an identification drive of the tenants from Salia Sahi and then will extend it across the city to keep a check on crimes,” said Sharma.
After the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl by an unknown person in Salia Sahi and an M Pharma student murdered by a few unidentified tenants in laxmi Sagar, the police have geared up the exercise of collecting details of the tenants.Recently, also the Commissionerate Police held a meeting with thepeople of Saheed Nagar in the city with the same objective.