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Drive against illegal hoardings intensified

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— Photo: R. Shivaji Rao

CONCERTED ACTION: A worker cuts the scaffolding of a hoarding on Cenotaph Road.

CHENNAI: The city police will arrest those who have put up hoardings without proper permission and register cases, G. Nanchil Kumaran, Commissioner of Police, said here on Monday.

The police have intensified the drive against unauthorised hoardings in the city and the suburbs with the help of Revenue authorities. More than 2,000 hoardings of various sizes and different types were removed. Digital boards were more in number among them, Mr Kumaran said. However, no one had been arrested so far.

Mr. Kumaran said the drive began on Sunday. On that day, nine hoardings were removed. The police would not touch the hoardings if a stay order had been obtained from the Supreme Court.

The police registered cases against the violators under the provisions of Indian Penal Code, the Madras City Police Act, the Tamil Nadu Municipal Law Amendment Act 2003 and the Motor Vehicles Act, wherever it was applicable.

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