Hyderabad: Police teams to track daggers at baraats

Hyderabad: Taken aback by the death of a teenager, who was killed while watching a sword dance at a wedding party at Shaikpet earlier this week, the South Zone police set up an ‘anti-baraat nuisance team’ on Thursday.  

The team will ensure that no knives and daggers are used at wedding parties. The initiative was taken following demand from the local public to save the lives of the youth, said V. Satyanarayana, South Zone DCP. 

Earlier this week, a Class IX student was accidentally stabbed to death in a wedding procession while watching a dagger dance in Shaikpet. There are no specific laws which stop the public from using daggers and knives at wedding ceremonies though the usage of guns and arms is banned. 

We are forming teams which will be led by sub-inspectors from each division in South Zone, said the official. “The ten-member team will be acting in association with the control room. Once an alert is received, the team will go to the venue and will book cases,” said the DCP. 

It has become a practice at weddings to dance with lethal weapons like swords and daggers, which are procured from Gulbarga and Bidar in Karnataka and Nanded and Aurangabad in Maharashtra. 

The task force had caught some persons for selling the weapons. The swords are sold for Rs8,000 and daggers for Rs2,000, sources said.