LUCKNOW, March 24 -- Lucknow police launched "Surakshit Safar Abhiyan" on Saturday to enhance passenger safety and regulate e-autorickshaw operations in the city. The initiative includes marking identification numbers in larger font sizes on vehicles and maintaining a database of drivers to ensure easy tracking. Strict action will be taken against unauthorised autos, overloading, and illegal parking, said officials.

The campaign follows the murder of a 32-year-old Ayodhya woman, who was killed by two e-autorickshaw drivers after a failed sexual assault and robbery attempt. The accused had picked her up from Alambagh bus station, but instead of taking her to Chinhat, they drove to Malihabad, where she was killed.

Under the initiative, po...