Crime branch officials are meeting in HQs of all districts, every 3 days, to strategise.
The police have started a massive drive across Gujarat's cities and towns to check the records of visitors to various cybercafés as a precautionary measure ahead of the polling for the state's 26 Lok Sabha seats from April 30.
A senior police official involved with the drive here said that police constables on various beats have started carrying out checking of the visitor entries made in the logbooks of about 25,000 cybercafés across Gujarat. "The records are being checked from the month of March this year," the official said.
According to the official, meetings of crime branch officials in all district headquarters are being held every three days to plan out strategies for keeping a watch on visitors to cybercafés during campaigning and the polls in Gujarat.
The cities and towns where the drive is being conducted are Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Vadodara, Surat, Bharuch, Bhavnagar and Porbander besides several rural pockets of the state, particularly in north Gujarat.
"We have found that several cybercafé owners are negligent and do not maintain the records of visitors properly. In such cases, action will be taken against the cybercafé owners. A police team in each district headquarters has been assigned the task of making regular rounds of cybercafés and checking the logbooks," the official said.
The police teams doing rounds of cybercafés have been asked to be extra vigilant during visits of VIPs in the state and are sending police constables to cybercafés several times a day to check who is visiting during VIP movement in all cities and towns.
Cybercafés located in the interior parts of old city areas across Gujarat are specially being watched as they are most likely to be used for communication by suspicious elements before any terror attacks, the official added.
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