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| October 08, 2006 | Sunday | Ramazan 14, 1427 |
Fresh drive against kite-flying from Monday
LAHORE, Oct 7: Following the Supreme Court order which banned kite-flying last year, the city police from Oct 9 (Monday) will observe a week against the sport made lethal by those using deadly twine.
The police have already registered 2,345 cases, arresting 2,250 ban violators, besides announcing punishments for 215 police officials for failing to check the sport effectively in their respective areas of jurisdiction, DIG (operations) Aamir Zulfikar Khan told journalists at his office here on Saturday.
He said kite-string claimed lives of nine people and murder cases were registered against the alleged culprits last year.
The DIG said the police were making all out efforts to seek cooperation of people from all walks of life to ensure effective implementation of the ban.
Mr Zulfikar said the police would be using section 109 of the PPC, which authorises arrest of violators and owners of the houses used for the sport.
“We will arrest the violators under section 109, a bail able offence, regardless of their age, and will also enter the houses from where kite-flying will be done,” the DIG said.
He said union council nazims, presidents of market associations and mohala committees would submit assurances by Oct 11 that they would not allow manufacturing, sale and purchase of kites and twine.
“We will identify taller buildings in the city, the police officials would be deployed to identify those flying kites from their houses and then the SHOs concerned will be informed about the violators for further action,” he said.
Mr Zulfikar said three teams headed by headquarters, security and VVIP SPs would monitor three divisions each to check violations.
He said letters of displeasure were also issued to the divisional SPs and SPOs for their poor performance in implementing the kite-flying ban in the past.
He further said the police had prepared fifty banners and thousands of pamphlets to create mass awareness on the issue, which would be installed at various places and distributed in schools.
The SPs would visit schools in their respective areas to educate the children about the kite-flying and its hazards, he said. Besides, a public address system would be launched through mosques and using vehicles to disseminate the message, he added. —Reporter
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