India, Nov. 3 -- Intensified checks at the UP-Gate-Ghazipur border to enforce pollution-control restrictions caused long traffic snarls on Monday morning, leaving commuters stranded.

The Delhi government implemented a ban on the entry of non-BS-VI vehicles into the capital from November 1 as part of its winter action.

An HT team at the border saw traffic building up between 10am to 12.30pm as police on both Delhi and Ghaziabad sides checked vehicles for compliance.

"I reached the UP-Gate in my BS-IV compliant Wagon-R, but I was asked to turn back and was allowed to enter Delhi. I then returned home and took my Scorpio SUV instead," said Mohammad Abdullah, a resident of Islam Nagar.

Some commuters said the checks were causing more poll...