Warnings Ignored, 12 Booked for Blocking Jhumra Road

Key Points:

Cases have been registered against 12 men for encroaching on Jhumra Road; the men are in the lock-up.
The men blocked the road with pushcarts despite repeated warnings and clearances.
CTO Nasir Javed Rana says action against encroachments will continue without discrimination.

FAISALABAD: Traffic police have registered cases against 12 men for blocking Jhumra Road with pushcarts and other obstructions. The men were put behind bars.

The operation was carried out on the instructions of Chief Traffic Officer Nasir Javed Rana, according to the traffic police release. It was supervised by the DSP Traffic of Madina Town circle and led by the in-charge traffic Abdullahpur, it said.

According to the release, the men had been warned repeatedly to clear the road and remove the encroachments. The road was cleared several times, but the men kept blocking it again, obstructing the movement of citizens, it said.

The cases were registered at the Mansoorabad police station after the violations continued despite the warnings and kept disrupting the smooth flow of traffic.

The chief traffic officer said legal action without discrimination would continue against those who disrupted traffic flow by encroaching on highways. He said citizens’ convenience, safe travel and a smooth flow of traffic were the traffic police’s top priority.

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