Dehradun: Sawan month is going on in the country. Haridwar police and administration are now fully focused on Somavati Amavasya. Today it is very important for them to stop the external devotees coming to Haridwar for bathing in the Ganges. Police have increased the security on the already sealed Uttar Pradesh-Uttarakhand border. Not only this, till Somavati Amavasya, those coming for bone immersion have also been banned. More than a thousand vehicles were returned by the police from the border on Sunday. DM and SSP are monitoring this system.
Due to COVID-19, there was already a ban on Ganga Snan in Haridwar. But later when the unlocking process started, it was first approved for bone immersion. However, till now outsiders were not allowed to come. Devotees are not allowed to come to Haridwar on Baisakhi, Guru Purnima etc. On Mahashivaratri, Jalabhishek was also banned in Pagoda. There is a ban on Somavati Amavasya bath on Monday. For this, the administration has sealed all the routes that connect Uttarakhand with UP, including the borders of Narsan, Bhagwanpur, Kanpur.
During the lockdown on Sunday, the police checked intensively at Mandawar and Kali River police check posts of Bhagwanpur. There were long queues of vehicles on the border. Police returned the vehicles that wanted to come to Haridwar instead of medical or other necessary reasons. Vehicles were given entry only after intensive checking at the Narsan and Kanpur borders. According to police officials, more than a thousand vehicles were returned from all three borders on Sunday. For some time in the afternoon, people were given some relaxation for unannounced bone immersion.
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