49 arrested for lockdown, curfew violations in Ludhiana city

Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, April 26

While city residents, more or less, complied with restrictions imposed during complete lockdown by the police authorities in the city on Sunday, but still violations like opening of shops and commercial establishments, holding functions with more number of guests than permitted, overloading in buses and auto-rickshaws and liquor vends selling or drinking places serving liquor were reported from different parts of the city. In all the police registered 44 cases for violations under Section 188 of the IPC with the arrest of 49 persons, while 17 others were booked.

The police arrested 11 persons for either purchasing liquor or being served liquor in the adjoining ahata (drinking place) along the Canal on Gill road, while six unidentified persons were booked for opening their shops and selling fish in Tajpur Road Fish Market in violation of lockdown restrictions.

The police arrested five owners, managers or security personnel of hotels and resorts for allowing more number of guests than permitted at functions, four vegetable sellers, nine karyana shop or general store owners, eight fast food outlet owners/managers, one auto-rickshaw driver for overloading and five others for opening hair-cutting saloons, a swimming pool, mutton and chicken shops. Three others were held for moving out at night during curfew hours without any valid reason.

All the arrested persons were booked under Section 188 of the IPC and in some cases relevant sections of the Epidemic Diseases Act were also invoked, said the police.

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