Verify guests: Cops to Khunti hotels
Ranchi:
Khunti district police
directed the hotel owners to avoid allotting rooms to customers without checking identity cards. The hoteliers were asked to submit a daily report of their guests detailing their names, addresses, and Aadhaar card numbers to the police.
Khunti SP Aman Kumar said, "The objective is to detect suspicious persons, including anti-social elements, criminals and organised crime group members, visiting the hotels. A tab would also be kept on foreign nationals visiting hotels. Many people are seen roaming in the town to sell clothes and other articles but their actual identities, including nationalities, are not clear."
Anup Sahu, a hotelier in Khunti town, said, "We have been asked to rovide the local police with the list of visitors' names and their details by the afternoon."
The Union govt had asked all Pakistani nationals, who are on short-term visas in India, to leave after the Pahalgam terror attack last month.
Adequate CCTV cameras should also be installed on the premises, police told the hotel authorities.
In another development, the police have also decided to stop vehicular movement for an hour from Tamar to Ranchi and Simdega via Khunti after school hours to ensure the safety of students and prevent traffic snarls.
Police have appealed that people should cooperate with administration and avoid encroachment and illegal parking in the town.
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