LUCKNOW: At least 4.25 lakh persons were booked in Uttar Pradesh in the past one year for flouting Covid curfew rules. The police also seized 96,000 vehicles for violation while 52 lakh persons were booked for not wearing the mask. Each UP district has created a unit to enforce Covid protocols on the directive of CM Yogi Adityanath.
LUCKNOW: At least 4.25 lakh persons were booked in Uttar Pradesh in the past one year for flouting Covid curfew rules. The police also seized 96,000 vehicles for violation while 52 lakh persons were booked for not wearing the mask. Each UP district has created a unit to enforce Covid protocols on the directive of CM Yogi Adityanath.
ADG, law and order, Prashant Kumar said more than 64,000 FIRs have also been registered since March 2020 against the violators. “Nobody would be allowed to flout the rules to check the spread of coronavirus,” he said.
Police are also clicking photographs of violators through body-worn cameras in commissionerates of Lucknow, Noida, Kanpur and Varanasi, the officer said.
ADG added that police force is also providing food, water and other basic needs of sustenance to the needy in the curfew. Cops have been told not to harass public in the name of enforcing the curfew. Counselling sessions have also been held at UP 112 for cops on behaviour management.
Kumar said police have framed a two-pronged strategy — macro level containment zone management and micro containment zone management — for enforcement of Covid protocols in the state. “There are 24,804 containment zones in the state in which 30,000 cops have been deployed,” the DG added. On the directions of DGP HC Awasthy, cops above 50 years have also not been deployed in the containment zones. Instead, additional 120 companies of PAC have been deployed in the containment zones.
Your support to NYOOOZ will help us to continue create and publish news for and from smaller cities, which also need equal voice as much as citizens living in bigger cities have through mainstream media organizations.