Police additionally issued a separate order banning the making of ‘reels' or movies that includes carbide weapons and their sharing on social media.
These crude selfmade weapons are made utilizing a gasoline lighter, PVC pipe and calcium carbide which produces acetylene gasoline after reacting with water and explodes upon contact with a spark, as per officers. Plastic fragments ejected from the pipe act like shrapnel and may trigger critical accidents.
District Justice of the Peace Shivam Verma, in an order issued beneath part 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, mentioned, “Illegally manufactured carbide weapons are adversely affecting the well being of the general public and the surroundings. Due to this fact, their manufacture, storage, buy, sale, distribution, show and use shall be fully prohibited.”
Part 163 provides magistrates the facility to challenge pressing orders to stop hazard or damage to the general public, well being, or security.
Extra Deputy Commissioner of Police Rajesh Dandotiya mentioned the police haven't solely issued a prohibitory order towards the acquisition, sale and use of carbide weapons, but additionally imposed a ban on making reels that includes these weapons and posting them on social media.” Police Commissioner Santosh Kumar Singh issued the order and directed all police station in-charges within the metropolis to make sure a strict compliance, he added.A violation of those prohibitory orders will result in the registration of a First Info Report beneath part 223 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (disobedience of orders from a public servant), officers mentioned.
Underneath the part, an offender will be punished with imprisonment of as much as one yr, a tremendous of as much as Rs 5,000, or each.
In the meantime, Indore's Chief Medical and Well being Officer (CMHO) Dr Madhav Prasad Hasani knowledgeable that 31 sufferers — most of them kids — with critical eye accidents in carbide gun-related accidents visited hospitals within the metropolis in the course of the Diwali interval.
Sufferers got here from Indore, Dewas, Agar-Malwa, Sehore, Shajapur, Khandwa, Khargone and Rajgarh districts of Madhya Pradesh, he mentioned, including that one affected person additionally got here from Jharkhand.
The sufferers' age ranged from three to 31 years.
Carbide weapons had been already banned in Bhopal and Gwalior districts following accidents. PTI
