The Greater Chennai City Police have arrested three men for selling banned kites with ‘manja’ threads from Bengaluru, by advertising them on social media. The City Police Commissioner regularly promulgates an order prohibiting use, sale, manufacture, storage and import of manja thread for flying kites. After further investigation, the police arrested three men —_Mohammed Fasil, 25 of Ayapakkam; Mansur Illahi, …
Despite issuing preventive orders ahead of Makar Sankranti, Mumbai Police had registered 92 cases on the sale of nylon manja kite string in the city. The order had said that the use of manja thread kites would be a punishable offence as every year during the festival, people and birds succumb to extreme injury due to kite threads made out …
