Mangaluru: Police resorts to strict measures to regulate night curfew; traffic movement blocked
Mangaluru: Local Police on Saturday night took strong measures along with a no-nonsense attitude while regulating the COVID night curfew in the city limits.
At least 45 check posts were set up across the city with more than 70 percent of the department’s personnel being deployed on them.
15 minutes into the scheduled beginning of the night curfew (i.e. 10:00 pm) the police teams blocked the roads not allowing traffic to move further. Vehicles were seen stuck in the middle of the road while the commuters wondered when the deadlock will end.
The traffic movement was then released after about an hour at 11:20 pm with warnings to the commuters.
Food delivery agents were also seen expressing displeasure over the delay and tried to negotiate with the cops citing their reasons but to no avail.
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Count of voters in Gujarat drops by 73.73 lakh to 4.34 crore post-SIR
Ahmedabad (PTI): The names of nearly 74 lakh voters have been dropped from Gujarat's draft electoral rolls after the completion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, pegging the total count of electors at 4.34 crore as against the 5.08 crore earlier, an official said on Friday.
The draft electoral rolls were published here by the Election Commission on Friday.
A total of 73.73 lakh voters were omitted from the electoral rolls after the exercise initiated by the EC to clean the rolls, state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Hareet Shukla said.
"Before the publication of the draft electoral rolls, a total of 5,08,43,436 voters were registered in the state. After the publication of these rolls, the number of voters is now 4,34,70,109," he said.
"During the SIR campaign, the names of a total of 73,73,327 voters have been removed from the draft electoral roll," Shukla said.
The names of voters in following categories were deleted in the draft electoral rolls -- deceased voters (18,07,278), absent voters (9,69,662), voters who have permanently migrated (40,25,553), voters registered in two places (3,81,470) and others (1,89,364), a release from CEO office said.
The SIR exercise began in Gujarat on November 4 and ended on December 14.
After the publication of draft rolls, objections and claims regarding them can be submitted to authorities till January 18, the EC earlier said.
