City Police Officer (CPO) Rawalpindi Syed Khalid Hamdani has said that kite flying ban violators were being dealt with an iron hand and no one would be allowed to violate the ban.
According to a police spokesman, the CPO had directed the police officers to take strict action in accordance with the law against the violators.
He informed that Rawalpindi district Police had arrested more than 400 kite sellers, flyers and confiscated over 18,000 kites and string rolls from their possession during the crackdown launched on Thursday night and Friday. Police also recovered weapons, sound systems and other items from their possession. Rawalpindi District Police had also urged the citizens to ensure that their children do not violate the ban on kite flying imposed by the provincial government otherwise strict action would be taken against the violators.
The spokesman said that on the special directives of City Police Officer, Rawalpindi Syed Khalid Hamdani, police were taking strict action and the ban violators were being sent behind the bars. The CPO had requested the parents to stop their children from getting involved in such activities as a crackdown against kite flyers had already been accelerated in the city, he added.
Special squads had been formed to net the violators while deputy superintendents of police and station house officers were also taking part in the operation. He said that the officers concerned had been directed to utilise all available resources to control the kite flying and to net the ban violators and the kite sellers. The violators were being dealt with an iron hand and no one would be allowed to violate the law and indulge in kite flying and selling, he added. The use of metal string for kite flying results in the loss of human lives therefore, all-out efforts are made to stop kite flying, he said adding, a special awareness campaign is also being run to control the ban violation.
