After a car of an MLA was set ablaze by miscreants in Haryana MLAs hostel here, Vidhan Sabha Speaker Gian Chand Gupta on Monday ordered to ban liquor consumption in the premises and beef up security at the entry or exit points.
The Speaker held a high-level meeting here which was attended by Haryana DGP PK Agrawal, ADGP (CID) Alok Mittal, IGP Saurabh Singh, Chandigarh Police's SP Ketan Bansal, Punjab Police DSP Security Sarabjit Singh, CISF Senior Commandant SP Singh among other senior police officers.
Taking cognizance of the arson incident in the MLAs hostel premises in Sector 3 here, the Speaker directed the officers to beef up the security in the premises to prevent such incidents in the future.
During the meeting, it was decided that the staff of Chandigarh Police will be deployed on both the routes of entry/exit of the hostel and a metal detector will also be installed there to check the persons entering the MLAs hostel. Apart from this, CCTV cameras will be installed on both the entry/exit roads of the hostel.
Miscreants had set ablaze an SUV belonging to Panipat MLA Pramod Kumar Vij in the MLAs hostel on the intervening night of December 28 and 29. A case under Section 353 (assault), 425 and 426 (mischief) of the Indian Penal Code was registered at the Sector 3 police station in this regard. Police have arrested the accused in the case.
Gupta also directed the police officers to ensure the security of the MLAs coming to the hostel and to maintain the details of each vehicle entering the premises from both the designated routes.
The Speaker said that the staff of MLAs and all the people coming there through them should follow the rules of MLA Hostel. He said that if any staff or other person consumed liquor etc. in the MLA hostel premises, he would not be given room here in the future.