Following the announcement of schedule of general elections 2014, the UT Administration on Friday imposed prohibitory orders in the Union Territory of Chandigarh for a period of 60 days. The orders issued by UT District Magistrate Mohd. Shayin under Section 144 CrPC would come into force from March 9 and would be in effect till May 7.
The orders stated: “As a measure of emergency, the public in general or any member thereof is prohibited from forming an assembly of five or more persons, taking out processions, making speeches, raising slogans, sitting in dharnas, carrying of lathis within the limits in the Union Territory of Chandigarh for a period of 60 days.”
With the Model Code of Conduct in force, the District Magistrate, has also prohibited as measure of emergency, the public from carrying of firearms and all kinds of lethal weapons, including spears within the limits of Union Territory of Chandigarh for a period of 60 days.
The UT District Magistrate has directed all the arms licence holders to deposit their weapons in the nearest police station of their jurisdiction up to March 8 by evening till the declaration of the result of lok Sabha elections, falling which their arms licence shall be revoked/cancelled.