Maha lockdown: Nearly 50k cases filed, 10k people held so far
Apr 17, 2020, 18:36 IST
Mumbai, Apr 17 () Maharashtra police have so farregistered close to 50,000 cases and arrested over 10,000people for offences related to flouting of lockdown norms inplace for the novel coronavirus outbreak, an official said onFriday.
He said 30 Maharashtra police personnel, includingseven officers, have so far got infected with the coronaviruswhile on frontline duty to combat the outbreak.
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"We have registered 49,756 offences under section 188of IPC and arrested 10,276 persons. There have been 102incidents of assault on policemen during this period and 162people have been arrested in them," he said.
"We seized 32,424 vehicles for violating prohibitoryorders, and 1,044 offences have been registered for illegaltransportation during the lockdown," he added.
The official said police across the state had handled70,300 calls related to coronavirus queries. DCBNM BNM(This story has not been edited by www.businessinsider.in and is auto–generated from a syndicated feed we subscribe to.)