Visakhapatnam: New Year revellers shift their party venue

Visakhapatnam: As Vizag city police have decided to tighten their grip on drunken driving and midnight parties on New Year Eve, city folks have started finding alternative venues such as Ananthagiri, Lammasingi, Dallapalle and a few others areas in Vizag Agency, where the police vigil is very low. The owners of sound system and lighting say they have been receiving calls from youngsters to arrange sound and light show for their parties in Vizag Agency on December 31 night and January 1.

ACP (traffic) K. Prabhakar said they have also been equipped with over 50 advanced breathalyzer machines to keep a check on drunken driving at various places in Vizag city from 8 pm on December 31 to 5 am on January 1. If any motorist caught for drunken driving, we will seize their vehicle and produce the motorist before the court. If the court sentence the motorists, we will collect their Aadhar number to link with tipsy motorist data in police records and they may face trouble while applying for passport, government jobs, he added.

The police appealed the New Year revellers to refrain from tipsy driving. It is time to celebrate New Year with drink, dine and dance. It is not at all possible to welcome the New Year by holding a glass of spirit as men-in-khaki has made all the security arrangement to spoil the midnight parties. Hence, we have decided to trickle to Lammasingi to welcome the New Year as we wish, said K. Vinay Kumar and his friends, all are software professionals.

Lammasingi, Tajangi, Aanthagiri, Dallapalle and few other areas in Vizag Agency were unfocused areas by the police so that the youngsters can enjoy a lot of whole night on December 31 in their style under thick cover of fog said, a owner of lighting and sound system, who got an order to arrange the lighting and sound in an isolated place in Vizag Agency. However, Vizag rural police are chalking out plans to carry out random raids to check the illegal activities during the New Year eve.