Prohibitory orders relaxed for 3 hours, police conduct search in Trilokpuri

Prohibitory orders on gathering and movement of people imposed in Trilokpuri were relaxed for three hours on Tuesday.

According to the police, the relaxation was given to the residents as no fresh violence was reported in the area in the past 24 hours.

“We decided to relax the prohibitory orders for three hours from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. as there was no fresh case of violence,” a senior police officer said.

During those hours, people were allowed to venture out of their homes and buy milk, vegetables and groceries.

The police are providing essential commodities to the residents through Safal outlets and Mother Dairy kiosks.

A mobile medical van, which had been arranged by the Delhi Government, was also brought to the area and the residents were given free treatment and medicines.

The schools and offices remained closed on Tuesday. However, children studying in schools outside the locality were allowed to go.

Meanwhile, the Delhi Police carried out a complete inspection of the area by using a drone. “We used a drone to survey the entire area. It is a regular exercise carried out during riots in order to identify miscreants,” a police officer confirmed.

The police also sent some of its personnel in plain clothes to search some houses in Block-15 and other sensitive areas. However, the search operation terrorised people and they started sending SOS messages to social activists complaining that some unidentified men were searching their houses.

Later a police officer clarified, “We had sent a team to search some houses where we knew people had hidden knives, swords and bricks to further escalate the violence and our team actually recovered those things.”

Trilokpuri , which is divided into 36 blocks, is being manned by over 1,000 personnel of the Delhi Police, Rapid Action Force, and the Central Reserve Police Force along with over 30 police vans, water cannons, and riot-control vehicles.