Even ambulances stopped at Pulwama, strict curfew being enforced
By Mudasir Ahmad Khan
Srinagar
On Tuesday different media channels including NDTV showed ambulances being stopped in Pulwama district while the officials have filed FIR’s, booked people and have seized many vehicles to enforce strict restrictions in the wake of COVID-19 threat.
When this VOV reporter asked a police official about the stopping of vehicles including ambulances, he replied that all such videos were being verified. Jammu and Kashmir Police is also using drones on the movement of people in the interiors of the roads. Police arrested three persons in downtown Srinagar and booked them when cricket matches were conducted in Gani Memorial Studium near Gojwara on Monday.
Reports from different parts of city said that several vehicles were seized and some people were detained and are likely to be booked for violating the prohibitory orders issued by the authorities. A police officer told this reporter that strict action is being taken against the violators and the FIR’s were being filed against them under 270, 271 IPC (likely to spread infection of dangerous disease to life and knowingly disobeying qurantine rule).
Police using the drones spreading the message asking people to stay indoors and come out only when it is extreamly necessary. Srinagar district has one confirmed corona case while hundreds of people are under observation in isolation wards and homes.
A senior police officer in Srinagar on Tuesday repeated the appeal to general public to follow the restrictions imposed by District Magistrate in order to spread COVID-19. Earlier on Monday Divisional Commissioner Kashmir K. Pole appealed people to follow shutdown across Kashmir till March 31. Government has already ordered closure of all establishments and services and are allowing only people connected with essential services to come out.
