On Tuesday, seven persons were caught without mask every four minutes in the city

7 caught every 4 minutes

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Ahmedabad:22.04.2021 

On Tuesday, seven persons were caught without mask every four minutes in the city with 2,539 fined on the day.Police said that on Tuesday a total of Rs 25.39 lakh was collected as fine from those caught for not wearing the masks. The number keeps increasing.

On election day, only four people were caught by city police for not wearing mask, which has now increased to 2,539 in a day.

On Monday, 2,625 persons were fined for not wearing masks and cumulatively Rs 26.25 lakh collected from them. The officials said that over 2,500 cases in a single day was the highest figure registered in the city since January1 .

During election time, seemingly fewer people were fined over mask rule violations. The numbers show that in February, mask rule violations were less than 1,000 a day, while by February 12, the number dropped to just 122. There were 407 cases for curfew violations and flouting disaster management act registered on Tuesday. Police said 415 people had been arrested in these 407 cases. Until Wednesday morning, cumulatively, 38,185 persons had been arrested in 36,968 such cases.

Majority of these cases pertained to movement during curfew without valid reason, said police. AMC officials said their teams were also involved in imposing mask fines for but did not give number of persons fined.

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