Inform police before accommodating strangers or face action

INDORE: City residents, hostel, hotel and lodge owners will now have to inform nearest police station about the tenants, maids, students and people staying in any of the respective form of accommodation. In order to maintain peace and harmony in the city, the district administration has evoked section 144, which will come into effect from Thursday and will last till September 8, 2012.
Not following the orders will face action and penalty. Additional district magistrate Alok Kumar Singh issued an order in this regard according to which it will be mandatory that no landlord provide accommodation without furnishing details to the nearest police station.
“Before giving shelter to any stranger be it job or maids, necessary information should be provided to nearest police station. It is only after verification, hostel, hotel and lodge and landlords should give space to the people. Hotel and lodge owners should provide authentic information of guests on daily basis,” said the orders of Singh.
The move seems to be in wake of Independence Day, which will fall next month. The city is already known as crime capital so administration is not chance to unscrupulous elements to breach security. Those not complying the orders will face action under IPC section 188.