Prayagraj: Cops on Sunday maintained a strict surveillance across the city on Sunday.
They carried out extensive checking drive in several areas after receiving reports that the owners of a few grocery stores and other shops had partially opened the shutters of their shops and were operating against the weekend lockdown norms.
The areas where the checking drive was carried out included Alopibagh, Cantt, Ashok Nagar, Chowk, Mumfordganj, Shivkuti, Rajapur, Sulemsarai, Ghantaghar, Mutthiganj, Kydganj and adjoining areas.
Meanwhile, most of the streets in the city wore a deserted look on Sunday owing to the weekend lockdown clamped to contain the spread of Covid-19.
The police also appealed to the citizens to strictly follow the weekend lockdown rules, and fined over 250 persons in the past 24 hours for not wearing mask.
The police teams patrolled markets and checked over 3,000 vehicles in a day.
Over 20 FIRs were lodged and 24 persons arrested for lockdown violation.
The police also challaned over 400 vehicles of those who didn’t produce valid documents.
Although there are no macro containment zones in the city now due to the decline in the graph of Covid cases, cops did not allow people to loiter on streets and challaned violators on the spot.
Specially constituted police teams led by station house officers and station officers on Sunday patrolled their irrespective areas and made frequent announcements on public address system, urging people to stay indoors.
A stricter vigil is being maintained in Old City areas.
The police also took help of CCTVs installed at prominent crossings and pockets across the district, and initiated action against those violating the norms.