Drones Banned In Mumbai For A Month For Security Reasons

Mumbai: The Mumbai Police has banned drones, remote-controlled micro-light aircraft, aerial missiles, para-gliders and other such devices citing terror and law & order issues.

The order issued under Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code(CrPC) will help prevent endangering public life and VVIPs.

“It has become necessary that certain restrictions should be put on the activities of such elements across the Brihanmumbai Police Commissionerate to prevent probable sabotages through such drones, remote controlled micro-light aircrafts, aerial missiles, para-gliders, for which some preventive and proactive measures needed be taken to prevent the same,” said Chaitanya.S, Deputy Commissioner, in the order.

The activities will be banned till November 28.