KOTA: Over 1,200 policemen were deployed at 80 points in Kota city to ensure strict adherence of weekend curfew.
With medical shops, grocery, dairy, petrol pumps, vegetables and fruit shops exempted from curfew, people ventured out of their homes to purchase essential items. The police deployment comprised 6 DSP, 20 sub-inspectors, 600 constables and 500 home guards at eight border points and 72 points inside the city. Besides, 37 SIGMA and Chetak squads also patrolled the city to monitor any violation of the curfew.
Most people in the markets cited getting Covid jab, purchasing medicines or essential commodities as reason for venturing out of home, however, shops in colonies, streets and towns continued commercial activities throughout the day. In Bundi, the local Vyapar Sangh objected to the weekend curfew alleging discriminatory attitude by the administration in respect to relaxation to grocery traders during the curfew and demanded complete lockdown. Despite curfew, members of the Vyapar Sangh assembled in large numbers at district collector’s office and submitted a memorandum demanding complete lockdown.