VIJAYAWADA: DGP Gautam Sawang warned of stringent action against all those found guilty of the recent attacks on temples and vandalism. He directed the police department to enhance protection and security to temples across the 13 districts. He said that continuous surveillance, patrolling and visual policing has been ordered at all places of worship.
Sawang said that so far, a total of 236 people have been arrested in connection with acts of vandalism at temples. He stated that 87 persons were arrested in 49 cases before the Antervedi temple chariot burning incident and 149 persons in 78 cases after that incident. He said that the police department initiated measures for protection of temples under which as many as 37,673 CCTV cameras have been set up in 11,295 places of worship in the State.
The DGP appealed to the people to consider that it is everybody’s responsibility to guard the sanctity of temples and sought them to give information if they come across any…