BENGALURU: The authorities captured 41,832 automobiles to get curfew and lockdown offenses in 54 days (April 10 to June 3), averaging 774 daily.
This past calendar year, 49,414 vehicles were seized throughout the 2 stages of Covid-19 lockdown — March 24 on April 30 and July 14 to July 22 — in a mean of almost 1,075 per day.
This season’s tally contains 37,362 two-wheelers, 2,036 three-wheelers and also 2,434 fourwheelers.
The corresponding figures were46,237, 1,200 and 2,077.
Police officials said that they were rigorously enforcing the constraints announced in the aftermath of the next tide of Covid-19.
The constraints will remain in place until June 14 because the authorities on Thursday extended the lockdown again.
Contrary to this past year, motion of automobiles was allowed for a variety of functions like vaccination and purchasing groceries.
“Many folks are misusing the relaxations and now we’re grabbing their own rides.
There were cases where guys posed as meals delivery representatives to ramble ,” a senior officer said.
“Every evening, there are still heated discussions involving police personnel and drivers, which wasn’t true throughout the initial lockdown.” Actual reasons dismissed? There also have been cases where individuals visiting hospitals were ceased.
A 23-yearold pupil from BTM Layout alleged a police group captured her two-wheeler close Tilaknagar on May 29 shortly after she revealed her appointment by an eye specialist.
She requested the hospital secretary to speak with a cop, but to absolutely no avail.
“As I had been conveying from Hindi and English, the Devil refused to listen to me,” she maintained.
Meanwhile, approximately 3,000 vehicles, largely two-wheelers, captured through the 2020 lockdown continue to be lying at different police stations in town since the owners haven’t finished the formalities like generating documents, coming a courtroom and paying a fine.
“It looks like the owners of those vehicles do not have appropriate documents to reveal,” another police officer said.