Applicants throng passport office

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 30 

The Passport Sewa Kendra (PSK) in the Industrial Area, Phase II, received a huge of visitors following the violence in Panchkula by followers of Dera Sacha Sauda. 

Many applicants said they had taken re-appointment as all routes leading to Chandigarh were closed. 

Many applicants said due to the curfew, they could not visit the passport office. A majority of applicants were from Patiala and Rajpura. “We could not make it to the city yesterday due to the curfew,” said a group of youngsters. The authorities maintained that the office continued to operate even as the curfew was clamped in parts of Punjab and Haryana following the violence in Panchkula.