Police challan more than 70 in city for not wearing masks

TNN | Apr 24, 2020, 04:05 IST

A man drives past a mural while wearing a mask in Prayagraj on Thursday during the lockdown enforced due to the Covid-19 outbreak

A man drives past a mural while wearing a mask in Prayagraj on Thursday during the lockdown enforced due to th...Read More

Prayagraj: Following a drive launched against people not using masks or ‘gamchhas’ , police challaned more than 70 persons for violating lockdown norms in the four districts of Prayagraj, Fatehpur, Kaushambi and Pratapgarh.
Over 1300 persons have been challaned in four districts of the range during one month of the lockdown period while 11 persons were arrested for violating lockdown norms in the city in the past 24 hours.
SSP Satyarth Anirudh Pankaj said, “Police have been maintaining strict watch in all nook and corner of the city for which additional mobile police pickets have been deployed on the border areas“. Strict vigilance is also being maintained at the lone hotspot Khuldabad--Shahganj border area.
Police have also arrested 11 persons after lodging 11 FIRs in different parts of the city like Mutthiganj, Sarai Inayat t and Koraon police stations in the past 24 hours against those found violating lockdown rules