Hyderabad: Taking chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s snub seriously, Telangana police went on an overdrive during lockdown enforcement on Saturday. The men in khaki did not even spare medical, electricity staff, both exempted from lockdown curbs, and seized vehicles of food delivery executives, people heading for vaccination shots and those supplying oxygen concentrators.
However, police brass claimed they are going after people “misuing lockdown exemptions”. Till last reports came in, police of the three city commissionerates had seized 8,359 vehicles for lockdown violations and registered over 9,000 cases. People delivering food to senior citizens, oxygen concentrators or heading for blood donation were slapped challans of ₹1,000 under Disaster Management Act.
After the chief minister’s remarks during a video conference with senior bureaucrats and police brass on Friday about lockdown not being enforced properly, policemen stopped, caned workers of even essential services and seized hundreds of vehicles on Saturday. The CM’s snub had a profound effect that even director-general of police (DGP) M Mahendar Reddy personally supervised the lockdown enforcement at various places in the city and gave instructions to commissioners.
Though Hyderabad police commissioner Anjani Kumar had warned law violators on Friday night itself about strict implementation of lockdown, no one expected police to seize vehicles of food delivery executives. At several places, executives of Swiggy and Zomato were caned when they tried to reason with policemen. In one video, which went viral on social media, a youngster wearing a Zomato T-shirt was caned right in front of Cyberabad police chief VC Sajjanar.
This story is from the May 23, 2021 edition of The Times of India Hyderabad.
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