India, June 7 -- The Mumbai traffic police on Thursday held a meeting with all online food and grocery delivery companies and handed them a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP). The companies have been told to stop the time-based delivery system, in which food or groceries are delivered within a few minutes to customers, corroborated Satyanarayan Choudhary, joint commissioner of police, Mumbai traffic.

The police, who have been issuing these warnings for years now, pointed out that due to this target, delivery partners boys break traffic rules to reach their destinations in time and risk their own as well as other people's lives. The company representatives at the meeting were given various instructions, including that of a police clearanc...