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Lockdown 3.0: Massive traffic jams in Delhi, inter-state checkpoints

Commuters had verbal run-ins with police deployed on the border checkpoints over the validity of movement passes

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Heavy traffic jam was witnessed at the Delhi-Ghaziabad border at Ghazipur on Tuesday, as strict checking has been put in place in view of the rising number of Covid-19 cases. Noida has also sealed its border with Delhi, barring exceptions. Photo: PTI

BS Web TeamAgencies New Delhi
With the Delhi government announcing certain relaxations in the third phase of the lockdown in the city, traffic jams were witnessed at many places in the national capital and inter-state border checkpoints in the morning hours of Monday.

Long queues of vehicles were witnessed at police checkpoints set up to rein in lockdown violators in Delhi as well as in the border areas. Maximum traffic snarls were witnessed on the Akshardham Road going towards the Delhi-Noida border, on the Delhi-Mehrauli Road, checkpoint on the National Highway-8 on the Delhi-Gurugram route, and the Delhi-Ghaziabad border.

The snarls began around 9 am