51 people arrested in Gautam Buddh Nagar for flouting COVID-19 curbs

Fifty-one people were arrested across Noida and Greater Noida on Sunday for allegedly violating curbs imposed to check the spread of COVID-19 outbreak, Gautam Buddh Nagar police said.

Owners of over 1,700 vehicles were issued challans for similar violations across the district, which, according to official figures, has so far recorded over 6,400 cases of COVID-19 including 43 deaths.

CrPC Section 144, which bars assembly of more than four persons, is in force in Gautam Buddh Nagar. Security checks also remained intensified due to the lockdown-like curbs imposed in the district, like elsewhere in the state, over the weekend.

"Ten FIRs were registered and 51 people arrested for violating the COVID-19 curbs. A total of 4,708 vehicles were checked across 200 barrier points in the district and challans issued to 1,757 of them while another six were impounded," the police said in a statement.

Altogether, Rs 95,200 were collected in fines during the action, the police said.

The Noida-Delhi border, which was closed for normal public movement since the outbreak of the coronavirus in March, was reopened on August 1, officials said.

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