Jalandhar, July 21, 2020: Continuing its drive against people who were not wearing the mask, the Jalandhar Commissionerate Police has so far issued 20423 challans to them, under the ‘Mission Fateh’ initiated by Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh and imposed a fine of Rs 95.57 lakh on the violators.
Disclosing more information, Commissioner of Police Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said that the Police have so far issued 20423 without mask challans and collected a fine worth Rs 95.57 lakh from the violators.
He said that a fine worth Rs 75,000 has been imposed so far for 42 violations of home quarantine instructions adding that 384 persons have been fined Rs 81,600 for spitting in a public place.
The Commissioner of Police said that a total of 45341 challans have been issued so far to the traffic violators and 2176 vehicles have been impounded.
Bhullar further said that fine worth Rs 137000 has been imposed on overloaded 71 four-wheelers, Rs 17000 on overloaded 34 Autos and fine worth Rs 369000 has been imposed on 184 for violating social distancing norms.
He said that on Monday, 215 traffic challans were issued. He said that today 181 persons without mask were challenged and a fine worth Rs 90500 was imposed on them.
The Commissioner of Police 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 directives of the government.
By Madhur: