Special drive to nab eve-teasers in Chandan Nagar

Rachna Khaira

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Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, April 28

Criticised over their failure to nab eve-teasers in Chandan Nagar and surrounding areas, the police of Division No. 3, along with women cops and traffic police, today carried out a special drive to nab them near various schools in the area.

Since morning, there was a heavy deployment of the police was seen around two prominent schools of the area reported to have the maximum eve-teasing incidents. However, during afternoon, the police began its operations to nab them and was seen interrogating everyone except the school students who were found to be near the school during that time.

The police also nabbed students violating traffic rules and warned them against over-speeding and riding without helmet.

Though no one was arrested, the police managed to bring some respite to residents, especially in the Chandan Nagar area and Deen Dayal Upadhaya Nagar and also Sat Nagar where residents face harassment due to repeated eve-teasing incidents. According to SHO Navdeep Singh of Division No. 3, many more awareness drives like this will be conducted at regular intervals to curb the illegal activities happening in the area.

Residents had informed Jalandhar Tribune yesterday that the area, being highly prone to drugs and illicit liquor trade, youths, especially school children, were creating a lot of nuisance and were involved in many eve-teasing, chain snatching and over-speeding incidents.