The Mumbai Police booked 806 people in 3 days for violating the Bombay High Court (HC)’s order of bursting firecrackers only between 8 pm and 10 pm.
On Monday, November 13, the city police stated that the violators were booked between November 10-12.
As per reports, the police said they started taking action against violators from Friday, November 10 after the HC order following which 784 cases were registered till Sunday night. Penal action was taken against 734 people while other relevant action was initiated against 72 others.
Senior police officers said the police control room received over 5,000 calls complaining about the violation of the HC order.
The police had stepped up patrolling and deployed additional manpower across the city to ensure residents complied with the HC order.
It is pertinent to note that on November 10, the HC issued the revised timings for bursting crackers on Diwali keeping in mind the Mumbai’s worsening air pollution.
However, civic officials said that even though there was HC’s order on the duration for bursting crackers, there was no written rule in place on the basis of which officials can penalise violators.
The civic body is not empowered to take action unless a written order is given by the government. Civic officials can only carry out sensitisation drives, and before Diwali we held several meetings with resident welfare associations and Advanced Locality Management (ALM) groups urging them to not flout the rules, an official said.
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