BAREILLY: Uttar Pradesh police inaugurated the Satyavrat police outpost - a two-storey 'hi-tech complex with several rooms to accommodate sufficient personnel' - exactly opposite Shahi Jama Masjid in Sambhal Sunday.
The outpost, which took about 100 days to build, bears the famous verse from Bhagavad Gita - "Yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati bharata... (Whenever there is a decline in righteousness...)" - a part of the sermon given by Lord Krishna. In front of its main gate, it has a symbolic chariot, meticulously handcrafted from Rajasthani marble stones. There are also inscriptions from Ramayana.
Significantly, some of the bricks thrown by protesters at police during last year's violence which left five people dead and many personnel hurt were used at the site. The violence had broken out during a court-directed survey of the Jama Masjid on Nov 24.
The inauguration, on the day of Ram Navami was held with a prayer ritual led by Sambhal DM Rajender Pensiya and SP Krishan Kumar Bishnoi, and the ribbon cutting event was led by a nine-year-old girl, Gungun Kashyap.
DM Pensiya said, "There is a mixed population in Sambhal. This outpost is built at midpoint. It has a watch tower - the highest point in the town - and has a CCTV control room for the 'Safe City Sambhal' project. The outpost's design is not any religion specific but inspired from the Constitution of India which also has several such images. For instance, the handwritten document of the Constitution has a sketch of Lord Ram at the commencement of the chapter on Fundamental Rights..."
SP Bishnoi added, "This is the district's first hi-tech police outpost, where staff equivalent to a police station will be deployed. Additional forces will be present. It has been developed to enhance security. The district's control room will be located in this outpost. All CCTV cameras in Sambhal will be monitored from here."
In another development in Sambhal, a temple in Khaggu Sarai was reopened for the "first time in 46 years" on the occasion of Ram Navami on Sunday. Sambhal has been regarded by many as the place where the 10th avatar of Vishnu - Kalki - will be born.
The outpost, which took about 100 days to build, bears the famous verse from Bhagavad Gita - "Yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati bharata... (Whenever there is a decline in righteousness...)" - a part of the sermon given by Lord Krishna. In front of its main gate, it has a symbolic chariot, meticulously handcrafted from Rajasthani marble stones. There are also inscriptions from Ramayana.
Significantly, some of the bricks thrown by protesters at police during last year's violence which left five people dead and many personnel hurt were used at the site. The violence had broken out during a court-directed survey of the Jama Masjid on Nov 24.
The inauguration, on the day of Ram Navami was held with a prayer ritual led by Sambhal DM Rajender Pensiya and SP Krishan Kumar Bishnoi, and the ribbon cutting event was led by a nine-year-old girl, Gungun Kashyap.
DM Pensiya said, "There is a mixed population in Sambhal. This outpost is built at midpoint. It has a watch tower - the highest point in the town - and has a CCTV control room for the 'Safe City Sambhal' project. The outpost's design is not any religion specific but inspired from the Constitution of India which also has several such images. For instance, the handwritten document of the Constitution has a sketch of Lord Ram at the commencement of the chapter on Fundamental Rights..."
SP Bishnoi added, "This is the district's first hi-tech police outpost, where staff equivalent to a police station will be deployed. Additional forces will be present. It has been developed to enhance security. The district's control room will be located in this outpost. All CCTV cameras in Sambhal will be monitored from here."
In another development in Sambhal, a temple in Khaggu Sarai was reopened for the "first time in 46 years" on the occasion of Ram Navami on Sunday. Sambhal has been regarded by many as the place where the 10th avatar of Vishnu - Kalki - will be born.
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