Daijiworld Media Network – Udupi (EP)
Udupi, Aug 4: Deputy commissioner of Udupi G Jagadeesha has imposed for prohibitory orders under CRPC Section 144 from 8 pm on August 4 to 8 am on August 6 in the wake of bhoomi pujan for Ram Mandir in Ayodhya on Wednesday August 5.
The deputy commissioner in a press release dated August 4 stated that the orders are being issued in response to the request by the DSP as special bhoomi pujan for the construction of Sri Ram Mandir are scheduled in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, believed to be the birth place of Sri Rama.
Officials and staff will be deployed in sensitive places across the district to prevent untoward incidents during the period.
The following are banned during the period:
1. Carrying arms, sticks, knives, spears, guns, lathis and other things than can cause human pain and harm.
2. Blasting of crackers, carrying explosive chemicals or explosives.
3. Protests, open celebrations, public processions, rallies, public or political meetings.
4. Tools like catapults that hurl stones and similar items.
5. Display of people’s dead bodies or their replicas.
6. Display using LEDs in public places.
7. Celebrations distributing sweets in public.
8. Public slogans, singing, music, speeches, preparing and displaying and distributing pictures, hand bills and signs that can ignite incidents that adversely affect law and order and public safety.
9. Sale of crackers in the district limits is also banned.
The orders do not apply to programmes or meetings conducted by the government. It also does not apply to bank and ATM security staff, staff on election duty and on COVID duty. The COVID regulations announced by the centre and the state governments will have to be adhered to as usual, the DC said.