Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Apr 12: The police department, noticing that many are habituated to flagrant violation of lockdown rules and a number of vehicles are unnecessarily being brought on the road for purposes other than procuring provisions and essentials, had issued stern warning that violators would not be spared. Now they have begun to strictly enforce the lockdown norms, sensing that crowding of roads and other places increases risk of communicating coronavirus infection.

As the system of delivering things to the doorsteps of the people has been put in place by the district administration within the city, the police see that vehicles are being taken out without any concrete reason.

As many as 167 vehicles which were found to be moving around in violation of lockdown rules were taken into custody by the city police on Saturday. Cases have been registered against them.

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Similar operation has been launched in various parts of the district, and the police, after stopping the vehicles and scrutinising the justification for bringing the vehicles out, have been registering cases against people who fail to offer convincing reasons. The vehicles so seized include cars, two-wheelers, auto rickshaw and others.

The operation was conducted under the directions of city police commissioner, Dr P S Harsha, by deputy commissioner of police, Laxmi Ganesh, and assistant commissioner of police, Manjunath Shetty.

Similarly, 178 vehicles found to be flouting rules were confiscated by the police on Friday.