Jalandhar, June 13,2020: In its drive against people for endangering the lives of people by not wearing the mask, the Jalandhar Commissionerate Police has so far issued 6774 challans to them, under the 'Mission Fateh' initiated by Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, thereby imposing a fine of Rs 27.32 lakh on wilful defaulters.
Divulging the details, the Commissioner of Police Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said that the Police have so far issued 6774 without mask challans and collected a fine worth Rs 27.32 lakh from the violators.
He said that a fine worth Rs 31,000 has been imposed so far for 20 violations of home quarantine instructions adding that 282 persons have been fined Rs 30,600 for spitting in public place. Likewise,
Bhullar said that a total of 33486 challans have been issued so far to the traffic violators and 1956 vehicles have been impounded.
The Commissioner of Police further said that fine worth Rs 52,000 has been imposed on overloaded 32 four wheelers, Rs 9000 on overloaded 18 Autos and fine worth Rs 32000 has been imposed on 16 persons for violating social distancing norms.
He said that on Saturday 197 traffic challans were issued.Bhullar said that today 216 persons without mask were challaned and a fine worth Rs 1.08 lakh was imposed on them.
Bhullar said that this drive would continue in the coming days and action would be taken against the violators adding that the people have to play a vanguard role for further checking the spread of COVID 19.
He said that it was the social responsibility of the residents to ensure the following the directives of the government to contain the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.