pune a section of residents on tuesday supported the ban imposed on the movement of traffic by the police and hailed the release of whatsapp numbers to address travelrelated queries but the response time was a sore point for a fewthe city police on monday night shared two whatsapp numbers for citizens who sought to travel two more numbers were added on tuesday morning and the city police released a format for seeking permission to commute the applicants concerned need to furnish name phone number destination vehicle number and specific details related to the cause of travel in the whatsapp message sent to the police seeking permission to travelaccording to a senior officer from the special branch of the pune police the whatsapp numbers were flooded with travel requests the special branch till 4pm had received over 3000 requests on whatsapp and email the officer saidseveral citizens stated that they received permission to travel quickly twitter user shashim had sent a request to the police stating will go to dairy twice a week and once a week to veggiegrocery shop without bike alone walking to neighbourhood store the department replied to his request immediately with an ok siranother city resident had messaged the police on one of the whatsapp numbers seeking permission for another person to reach the airport at 1152pm on monday night the resident got the approval within minutesgetting the travel permission was not easy for all residents though ganeshkhind road resident deepti pundale said i had sent a message on the mentioned numbers in the morning fir going to pick up a gas cylinder from the agency but did not get a response till the evening if we delayed further the agency would close for the day my mother and i walked down to the closest junction and spoke to the policemen on duty there he said cylinder was an essential item and fetched an autorickshaw for us to go and get the cylinderamee parikh from the us sent messages to the pune police whatsapp numbers seeking travel permission for her fathers caretakers in pune i sent whatsapp messages on two numbers at 230am ist but not in the given format on reviewing the tweets i sent another message as per the format at 717am ist another message for the second caretaker was sent around 9am india time i had sent the messages from both my us and indian numbers but did not receive a response till tuesday evening both the caretakers reached my father but they were stopped on the way said parikhkharadi resident nitin kamath also tried to seek travel permission but did not get a response till late on tuesday eveningthe special branch officer said we gave permission to many people after verifying their travel requests and a majority of them were still in pipeline on tuesday evening many requests for trivial reasons were categorically rejectedcell to handle commute issuesthe city police on tuesday constituted a dedicated grievance redressal cell to grant permission and