In the wake of the Twin City Commissionerate police’s recent busting of two gangs, which used to loot people after asking for lifts on road, the police have advised the denizens of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack not to give lifts to strangers, irrespective of their genders.
Commissioner of Police YB Khurania said people shouldn’t give lifts to strangers after evening. “If they feel that any girl or woman is in trouble, they should inform the police control room or local police station about it,” he said.
“It has come to notice that some miscreants with ill intentions are asking for lifts on the pretext of dropping them at hospitals, medicine stores and railway stations. Some are also trapping people asking for lift to drop them at homes during late night. They later commit loot at gunpoint or knifepoint,” he added.