HYDERABAD, Jan 1: The city police arrested three people on the New Year eve for resorting to aerial firing.

M. Hussain was arrested near a tomb in Latifabad with an unlicensed TT pistol and two bullets.

The Hali road police arrested Mubarak Gaddi Pathan and Azmat Pathan. They were found in possession of a TT pistol and a double barrel with two cartridges.

The arms and ammunition was licensed in the name of another person.

Youths resorted to heavy aerial firing at midnight on Tuesday and exploded crackers to celebrate the new year.

The police adopted strict security measures on Monday night to prevent youths from gathering at different points of the city to celebrate the new year. All the main thoroughfares and roads leading to the press club, Gymkhana Chowk and Saddar area had been blocked from different points so that youths could not gather there.

SEIZED: The Kotri police on Monday seized 5,000 cartridges and ten packets of soap from Shabbir Ahmed Samoon.

He was going to Thatta from Hyderabad in his car (E-0030).

The police said that the accused had a license but it was in the name of another person and for a lesser number of cartridges.

EYE CAMP: The Hyderabad Lions Club is organizing a free eye camp at the Police Ground here from Jan 3 to 7.

An announcement by the club said that noted eye specialists would examine patients and perform eye operations at the camp free of charge.