Not allowed on board due to Covid curbs people damage DTC buses block road in Delhi
New Delhi Dec 30 PTI A group of people blocked the MB Road in Delhi and damaged DTC buses on Thursday morning after not being allowed to board a vehicle that had exceeded the permissible passenger-carrying capacity under Covid-related restrictionsPolice used mild force to disperse the crowd and five people were detained officials saidAdditional Deputy Commissioner of Police south M Harsha Vardhan said some people blocked the MB Road and broke the glass of a DTC bus around 1030 amPolice dispersed the crowd A case under relevant sections of the Delhi Prevention of Defacement of Property Act the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act and the Indian Penal Code is being registered at Sangam Vihar police stationThe incident occurred due to the non-availability of seats in buses in view of Covid-related restrictions he saidDeputy Commissioner of Police south Benita Marry Jaiker said in the morning several calls complaining about a traffic jam near Jamia Hamdard on the Mehrauli-Badarpur Road were receivedPolice reached the spot and found that some commuters were instigating others to sit on the road as bus drivers and marshals were not allowing more than 17 passengers to board as per the latest guidelines of the Delhi government the DCP saidPolice tried to convince the people not to disrupt traffic movement on the stretch Later the people broke windowpanes of four to five buses she saidPolice removed the protesters from the spot In the melee a policeman was injured Jaiker said adding that four men and two women were arrested and a juvenile was apprehendedVideos of the incident that emerged on social media showed that two buses were damaged Their windshields and side mirrors were brokenIn a video the conductor of a bus said We have instructions to allow only 17 passengers on board at a time When there are 20 people including the driver conductor and marshal on the bus we do not stop it bus If we stop and more people enter the bus we will be fined Rs 2000 When we did not stop the bus today people got agitated and started pelting stones However nobody inside the bus was injured he saidAmid a spike in COVID-19 cases following the emergence of the Omicron variant Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday declared a yellow alert closing schools colleges cinemas and gyms in the cityShops dealing in non-essential items will open on an odd-even basis and metro trains and buses will at 50 per cent of seating capacityUnder the four-stage Graded Response Action Plan GRAP the yellow alert kicks in if the positivity rate settles at 05 per cent for two consecutive days leading to a host of restrictionsThe GRAP was approved by the Delhi Disaster Management Authority in July in anticipation of the third wave of Covid It aims to bring in a clearer picture of imposition and lifting of restrictions depending on the Covid situation PTI NIT NIT DIV DIV
New Delhi Dec 30 PTI A group of people blocked the MB Road in Delhi and damaged DTC buses on Thursday morning after not being allowed to board a vehicle that had exceeded the permissible passenger-carrying capacity under Covid-related restrictionsPolice used mild force to disperse the crowd and five people were detained officials saidAdditional Deputy Commissioner of Police south M Harsha Vardhan said some people blocked the MB Road and broke the glass of a DTC bus around 1030 amPolice dispersed the crowd A case under relevant sections of the Delhi Prevention of Defacement of Property Act the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act and the Indian Penal Code is being registered at Sangam Vihar police stationThe incident occurred due to the non-availability of seats in buses in view of Covid-related restrictions he saidDeputy Commissioner of Police south Benita Marry Jaiker said in the morning several calls complaining about a traffic jam near Jamia Hamdard on the Mehrauli-Badarpur Road were receivedPolice reached the spot and found that some commuters were instigating others to sit on the road as bus drivers and marshals were not allowing more than 17 passengers to board as per the latest guidelines of the Delhi government the DCP saidPolice tried to convince the people not to disrupt traffic movement on the stretch Later the people broke windowpanes of four to five buses she saidPolice removed the protesters from the spot In the melee a policeman was injured Jaiker said adding that four men and two women were arrested and a juvenile was apprehendedVideos of the incident that emerged on social media showed that two buses were damaged Their windshields and side mirrors were brokenIn a video the conductor of a bus said We have instructions to allow only 17 passengers on board at a time When there are 20 people including the driver conductor and marshal on the bus we do not stop it bus If we stop and more people enter the bus we will be fined Rs 2000 When we did not stop the bus today people got agitated and started pelting stones However nobody inside the bus was injured he saidAmid a spike in COVID-19 cases following the emergence of the Omicron variant Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday declared a yellow alert closing schools colleges cinemas and gyms in the cityShops dealing in non-essential items will open on an odd-even basis and metro trains and buses will at 50 per cent of seating capacityUnder the four-stage Graded Response Action Plan GRAP the yellow alert kicks in if the positivity rate settles at 05 per cent for two consecutive days leading to a host of restrictionsThe GRAP was approved by the Delhi Disaster Management Authority in July in anticipation of the third wave of Covid It aims to bring in a clearer picture of imposition and lifting of restrictions depending on the Covid situation PTI NIT NIT DIV DIV
