Mahakumbh: ID verification of all guests to mela space made obligatory

With simply days remaining for the formal begin of the mega spiritual honest of Mahakumbh-2025, the mela police have made id verification of all guests a should within the sprawling tent metropolis unfold throughout 4,000 hectares.

Be it saints, employees, and even policemen, verification of all guests within the honest space has been made obligatory. From the working roadside distributors to the store operators and workers, the id of everybody will likely be verified. The mela police will make sure the id of each particular person by operating Operation Verification constantly until January 13, knowledgeable officers.

The step follows days after a seven-tier safety system was implement forward of the New 12 months and the honest by the Prayagraj police.

Police officers are on their toes, particularly within the wake of a video by Canada-based Sikh for Justice chief and designated terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun making threats to unfold terror in the course of the Mahakumbh in Prayagraj going viral. This comes inside days of three terror suspects allegedly concerned in a grenade assault in Gurdaspur, Punjab, being killed in an encounter by a joint group of Uttar Pradesh and Punjab Police in Pilibhit. The menace particularly talked about focusing on key bathing festivals, together with January 14 (Makar Sankranti), January 29 (Mauni Amavasya), and February 3 (Basant Panchami).

Since December 26, totally different operations have been undertaken constantly to seek for suspicious individuals and automobiles within the mela space. The intention is to establish each particular person contained in the mela space by way of Operation Verification. Identification playing cards, names, addresses, and cellular numbers of workers working beneath totally different contractors within the honest space, store homeowners and their workers, saints and their visitors staying in tents, Kalpvasis, and even police personnel are being recorded, knowledgeable SSP (Kumbh) Rajesh Dwivedi.

Directions have been given to establish even people coming in police uniforms in order that no suspicious particular person can succeed of their plans by coming within the guise of police or saints to trigger hassle, he added.

On Monday night, the police performed an Operation Kavach marketing campaign on Shastri Bridge. Throughout this, aside from suspicious individuals, automobiles have been additionally checked. On the identical time, camps within the tent metropolis have been inspected beneath Operation Mahavir.

On Monday, officers of the mela administration and police visited the honest space, led by ADG Zone Bhanu Bhaskar. Essential directions got after inspecting the Kali Marg Pontoon bridge within the honest space, the principle roads within the Kalighat and Sangam space, apart from Akshay Vat, the Lete Hanuman temple, and the ghats within the Daraganj space. On this event, Prayagraj police commissioner Tarun Gauba, IG Prem Chaudhary, DM of Kumbh Nagar Vijay Kiran Anand, DM-Prayagraj Ravindra Mandar, SSP (Kumbh) Rajesh Dwivedi, amongst others, have been current.