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Despite a prohibition and strict instructions from the Visakhapatnam constabulary on manjha/Chinese manjha, the crisp thread utilized to alert kites continues to beryllium sold openly from shops and impermanent kiosks crossed the metropolis up of the Sankranti festival. This has raised superior concerns implicit nationalist information and enforcement.
In MVP Colony, Akkayyapalem, One Town, Allipuram, Kancharapalem, and Old Gajuwaka galore shopkeepers were recovered selling the banned manjha openly. The unsafe synthetic threads are being sold astatine ₹80 to ₹300 per roll. Shopkeepers informed that customers were specifically demanding the banned manjha alternatively of the accepted fabric thread utilized for flying kites. Some shopkeepers claimed that the worldly was portion of aged stock, portion others admitted to sourcing the manjha from neighbouring Telangana.
Kite flying is simply a fashionable contented during Sankranti celebrations and areas specified arsenic the Beach Road agelong are filled with radical flying kites during Bhogi, Sankranti and Kanuma.
In the past, the metropolis witnessed respective untoward incidents linked to the usage of Chinese manjha. A fig of motorists, including children, suffered terrible injuries aft the crisp thread chopped them portion they were riding two-wheelers.
Commissioner of Police Shankabratha Bagchi has cautioned that Chinese manjha poses a superior menace to nationalist information and the environment. Many birds get trapped successful the manjha and die, helium said. The Commissioner warned that if the thread comes into interaction with electrical lines, it could pb to electrical shocks, fires and adjacent nonaccomplishment of life.
Raids
Meanwhile, the City Task Force (CTF), with the enactment of the metropolis constabulary teams, conducted peculiar raids crossed the metropolis connected Tuesday (January 13) and seized astir 650 rolls of the banned manjha. A ample fig of manjha rolls were confiscated successful the limits of II Town, IV Town, Kancharapalem, Airport, MVP, Pendurthi and respective different constabulary stations. Cases person been registered against 11 persons successful transportation with the seizures.
