Hyderabad: With the appearance of summertime and deaths at tanks and lakes in and around the metropolis, the police have started placing up signage warning humans against fishing and swimming in the water bodies.
Every year, about a dozen deaths are mentioned in water bodies in and around the town. The sufferers are specifically kids who venture into the tanks or lakes to swim and get drowned, unable to tackle the water. However, some are also fishing and slipping into the water bodies by chance and getting drowned.
Rachakonda Commissioner Mahesh Muralidhar Bhagwat has asked the Pahadishareef police to immediately put up banners cautioning people against swimming in the Jalpally Tank (Jalpally talaab).
Body located
The caution came here after the police observed a body within the tank on Sunday. The Jalpally Tank is visited by folks of different ages for swimming and fishing. In the past, numerous youngsters had drowned at the same time as swimming in the Jalpally Tank.
The Commissioner requested the Pahadishareef, under whose jurisdiction the Jalpally tank falls, to take the people who violate the orders into custody and check in instances against them if necessary. The nearby patrolling events had been additionally directed to regularly go to the location and detain the folks entering the water for swimming and fishing.
In the initial 10 days, three of our bodies, including that of a toddler, were recovered from the tank. The Commissioners issued comparable instructions to all of the police stations, which includes Hayathnagar and Adibatla.
The ACP Rajendranagar division, Ashok Chakravarthy, has also requested the Mailardevpally police to position up banners across the Umdasagar and Palle Cheruvu tanks at Bandlaguda. Several children who visited the location to swim in the tanks drowned the remaining year and the year earlier than the last. In 2017, 3 college students of a number one school drowned in the Umdasagar tank, and in 2018, four drowning deaths were stated within the tank.
Parents counseled
Meanwhile, the Shamshabad Airport police have accelerated patrolling in the Manasa Hills quarries shaped close to the Himayatsagar Lake beneath the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport police station and the Shamshabad Lake region. Manasa Hills is a picnic spot, and children from some distance off locations of the city visit the area. Here, too, several deaths because of drowning were mentioned. In 2018, seven men and women, such as three three engineering college students, drowned in December 2018 in Manasa Hills.
The police have appealed to parents to counsel their youngsters to go to the tanks, lakes, and other risky places for swimming and fishing.
