India News | Noida: 15 Arrested for Violating COVID-19 Curbs, 1,551 Vehicle-owners Penalised
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Fifteen people were arrested and the owners of 1,551 vehicles penalised across Noida and Greater Noida on Wednesday for alleged violation of curbs imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Gautam Buddh Nagar police said.
Noida (UP), Jul 1 (PTI) Fifteen people were arrested and the owners of 1,551 vehicles penalised across Noida and Greater Noida on Wednesday for alleged violation of curbs imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Gautam Buddh Nagar police said.
Also, five vehicles were impounded for a similar violation during a 24-hour period till Wednesday night, the police said, even as "Unlock 2" -- the phased re-opening of activities that were barred to contain the spread of COVID-19, began in Uttar Pradesh.
Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), which bars an assembly of more than four persons, is in force in Gautam Buddh Nagar, urban areas of which fall in the COVID-19 "red zone".
"Eleven FIRs were registered and 15 people arrested for violating CrPC section 144. A total of 3,179 vehicles were checked at 200 barrier points in the district and challans issued to 1,551 of those, while another five were impounded," the police said in a statement.
Altogether, Rs 24,600 were collected in fines during the action, they said.
The Noida-Delhi border continues to remain sealed for movement except for essential services and people carrying passes issued by the district administration, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Noida, Sankalp Sharma told PTI.
The Centre had, on Monday, issued guidelines for the month-long "Unlock 2" from Wednesday.
"Unlock 1", a graded exit from the nationwide lockdown imposed on March 25, ended on Tuesday.
The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to tow the Centre's guidelines in the state, where educational institutions, metro services, cinema halls and gymnasiums will continue to remain shut.
There is no ban on intrastate and interstate movement of people and goods, senior state government officials said on Tuesday.
However, the district administrations, police and health department officials of Gautam Buddh Nagar and Ghaziabad can impose a ban at the local-level after consulting each other, they added.
Both the districts had sealed their borders with Delhi in view of the high number of COVID-19 cases in the national capital in a bid to break the chain of transmission of the coronavirus. PTI KIS RC 07012212 NNNN“to confirm the unavailability of the athlete, not to locate an athlete for testing.”
Athletes are required to list their whereabouts for an hour each day when they must be available to be tested. A violation means an athlete either did not fill out forms telling authorities where they could be found, or that they weren't where they said they would be when testers arrived.
Coleman said in his post he has been appealing the latest missed test for six months with the AIU, which runs the anti-doping program for World Athletics. He explained there was no record of anyone coming to his home and that if he had been called he was only five minutes away.
It's the second time Coleman has faced a potential ban for a whereabouts violation. Coleman won the 100 meters at the world championships in Doha, Qatar, last September after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency dropped his case for missed tests because of a technicality.
“I have never and will never use performance enhancing supplements or drugs,” Coleman wrote Tuesday.
“I am willing to take a drug test EVERY single day for the rest of my career for all I care to prove my innocence.” After winning the gold medal in Doha, Coleman said he needed to be more careful to keep track of his whereabouts.
“I haven't been careless. I think I can just be more mature about it, more diligent about updating the app. But I mean, I think everybody in this room is not perfect. Everybody has made mistakes,” he said.
“Going forward, I just try to do a better job about being more diligent about it.”
Coleman is the latest in a string of runners hit with whereabouts charges in 2020.
The AIU filed a similar charge this month against women's 400-meter world champion Salwa Eid Naser of Bahrain. She was already under investigation when she won gold in Doha last year in the fastest time since 1985.
Former U.S. national 200 champion Deajah Stevens was suspended in May. (AP)
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