The UT Administration on Thursday issued a series of orders to maintain law and order situation in the Union Territory of Chandigarh.
The UT Administration has directed residents including landlords, tenants, owners of commercial establishments to furnish information about ordinary servants, helpers, maid servants employed by them so that anti-social elements in the guise of ordinary domestic servants, helpers or maid servants may not pose a threat to their own employers and to other citizens.
As an emergency measure, the residents of union territory of Chandigarh, including landlords, tenants and those running commercial establishments will not employ any domestic servant, helper, part time maid servant, unless his/her particulars are furnished to the Station House Officer (SHO) concerned in writing in the form designed format by the local police, stated the orders.
All the orders have been issued by UT District Magistrate Mohammad Shayin.
The Administration has also directed the landlords, owners and managers of paying guest accommodation to inform their respective station house officer regarding the antecedents of paying guests staying in their accommodations.
This is done to minimise the anti-social elements in the guise of paying guest do not cause harm to the citizens of the city. The order issued under Section 144 Criminal Procedure Code made it clear that the offenders, who will not follow this order, will be liable to be prosecuted under Section 188 Indian Penal Code.
The District Magistrate in exercise of the powers vested with him under Section 144 CrPC, has also directed the owners of the cyber cafes to strictly comply with the instructions issued by the Administration time to time. The Administration has
prohibited the use of cyber cafes by unknown person whose identity has not been established by the owner of the café.
The cyber cafes has been asked to maintain a register for identity of the visitor/user; make an entry in the handwriting of the visitor or user mentioning name, address, telephone number and identity proof.
The visitor or user will also sign the register kept for this purpose; the identity of the visitor or user will be established through identity card, voter card, ration card, driving licence, passport and photo credit card; activity server log should be preserved in main server and its record should be preserved for at least six months.
And, if any activity of the visitor is of a suspicious nature, the owner of the cyber café should inform the police station.
The Administration has also prohibited the sale of correction fluids to the minor children in the union territory of Chandigarh. These orders have been issued as a measure of emergency under Section 144 CrPC. These orders are being issued keeping in view that some minors, specially school going children are committing crimes after using correction fluid (white fluid generally used by typists for making corrections on types matter).
All the above orders will come into effect from April 12 and would be effective till June 10.