132 booked so far for violating lockdown order
   Date :31-Mar-2020

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 Police stopping people venturing out from their houses without any valid reason.
 
 
Staff Reporter :
 
City police on Monday registered 13 cases against people violating lockdown orders. Earlier on Sunday and Saturday, 10 and 15 cases respectively were registered in various police stations of Bhopal against those violating the order.
 
The accused were booked under sections 188, 269 and 270 of IPC. Since March 22, after the lockdown order was issued by collector, 132 cases have been registered against violators. During the day on Monday three cases were reported in Bajaria, Habibganj and Kolar police stations. All the accused were found roaming out of their house without any valid reason. When asked they failed to explain why they were there. Similarly, other cases were also reported in the Chunabhatti, Bilkhiria, Shahpura, MP Nagar, Ashoka Garden, Talaiya, Nishatpura and Eitkhedi. All the accused were found roaming about without any reason. At the time the world is still suffering from the Virus the lockdown is imposed.
 
On Sunday, Govindpura police booked two bus operators for allegedly leaving passengers stranded at ISBT despite taking fare from them to drop them at Jabalpur and other districts. Police said that the bus operators boarded passengers from Ratlam for going to Jabalpur and other districts but left them at ISBT and fled. Police took details of buses from entry points and CCTV cameras and registered cases against them. ASP Crime Branch Nishchal Jharia, who has been assigned to keep a check on police checkpoints on city outskirts said that people, who work as labourers in Indore and other cities and are returning to their home towns by walking, have been constantly coming at these checkpoints.
 
They are being sent to their native place. He stated that now the new order has been issued and district boundaries are sealed. bbbbbbbbbbb Cops lend helping hand to needy Amid the lockdown, city police continued their good work of distributing food packets and masks to needy. On Monday, an elderly widow Ramawati who was found roaming on road by police sent to old age home in Shahjahanabad. She hails from Khandwa and here lived with her daughter and son-in-law in Laxmi Nagar area but now she didn’t want to stay with them anymore.