About two weeks after a Shiv Sena MP's car mowed down a deer in the tourism zone of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), the forest department has put up notices at the gates leading to internal roads, with instructions for the motorists of private vehicles to stay away from the route.

Notices have been put up at the Bhandup and Kanheri gates, which says only officials of the forest department and the BMC on duty are allowed to enter the internal roads. Sources from the SGNP said, "Private vehicles were already prohibited from entering the internal roads, which passes through the core area of SGNP between Kanheri caves and Khindipada near Bhandup, but some politicians still used the road to avoid traffic. They fail to understand that vehicular activity disturbs the wildlife movement in the core area. It is good that the forest department has put stricter rules to keep private vehicles out."