Jalandhar, June 7,2020: Continuing its drive against people for endangering the lives of people by not wearing the mask, the Jalandhar Commissionerate Police has so far issued 4787 challans to them, under the ‘Mission Fateh’ initiated by Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, thereby imposing a fine of Rs 17.39 lakh on them.
Commissioner of Police Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said that the Police have so far issued 4787 without mask challans and collected a fine worth Rs 17.39 lakh from the violators. He said that a fine worth Rs 23,000 has been imposed so far for violation of home quarantine instructions adding that 282 persons have been fined Rs 30,600 for spitting in public place. Likewise Mr. Bhullar said that a total of 30964 challans have been issued so far to the traffic violators and 1914 vehicles have been impounded.
The Commissioner of Police further said that fine worth Rs 30,000 has been imposed on overloaded 21 four-wheelers, Rs 8500 on overloaded 17 Autos and fine worth Rs 2000 has been imposed on a person for violating social distancing norms. He said that on Sunday 243 traffic challans were issued. Bhullar said that today 174 persons without mask were challenged and a fine worth Rs 87,000 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.