NEW DELHI: The home ministry informed the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday that there had been 276 instances of imposition of Section 144 of Criminal Procedure Code, which prohibits assembly of four or more people in a given area, in Delhi during the last three years. It, however, added that there no lathi-charge was reported during the imposition of Section 144 during this period.“As per the information available, there have been 276 instances of resorting to imposition of Section 144 in Delhi to prevent certain unlawful acts such as carrying of licensed arms, flying of drones/ paragliders, prohibition of consumption of intoxicating substances at public places/ near liquor vends, restrictions for heavy vehicular traffic etc. There has been no report of lathicharge during the Imposition of Section 144 in Delhi,” MoS (home) G Kishan Reddy said in a written reply to a question.Section 144 continues to be in force in the areas of northeast Delhi hit recently by communal riots as well as in some localities witnessing sit-in protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act.