Ahmedabad: In the midst of the spread of 23,000 police in the city before Rath Yatra on Monday, a mask violation fell to 805 on Saturday from 2,668 in 5.
According to city police figures, because the police trained their focus on Yatra, their mask violations declined to be around 70% of July 5 in six days before Saturday.
The worshipers will not be allowed to participate in Yatra because of the covid pandemic.
Resources in the police said that the mask case plunged during the festival in October and November last year and in February this year in the Civic poll process.
When Covid swimming cases, the police generally tend to be soft with offenders and do not do aggressive drives to capture multilevel people.
“Last week, the Covid case ranged from 11 and 15 in the city.
We have not held a large drive to order people who roam without masks,” said a city police officer.
“In addition, vaccination initiatives have been intensified, so the risk of spreading infection will decrease.
Thus, we decided to be a little soft on the mask offender.” The police did not consider the fact that the number of Covid cases had increased only a few weeks after the period when the mask violation showed a trend of masks , According to city police figures, Ahmedabad reported nearly 6.70 cases of mask violations from June 24, 2020, until June 2021 and Amdavadi paid Rs 54 Crore for violating the rules.
The police said that they would begin to crack down on mask violations and register fir because they did not follow social distance norms after Rath Yatra concluded.
NOD to hold 144th Rat Yatra in the city was given by the state government on July 8.