PESHAWAR: The district administration and police failed to enforce ban on sale of toy guns in the provincial capital on Sunday.

The shopkeepers sold toy weapons in the day without let or hindrance as the people celebrated Eidul Fitr in many parts of the city.

The youths bought toy guns and brandished them.

The district administration recently banned the sale and purchase of toy guns under Section 144 of CrPC and later seized a huge quantity of them during raids on shops and godowns.

The sale of toy guns was reported mostly in localities near cantonment area, where shopkeepers put them on display and thus, attracting minor buyers. The shopkeepers insisted that the police had allowed them to sell the available stock of toy guns and make no such procurements in future.

Published in Dawn, June 26th, 2017