Police make over 600 arrests in Dhaka for lockdown violations

DHAKA, 04 July (TON): Police in Dhaka have continued to make arrests for breach of stay-at-home orders on the third day of the nationwide lockdown imposed to curb a surge in coronavirus infections and deaths.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) said at the end of Saturday they arrested 621 people for leaving their homes without valid reasons.

Mobile courts slapped fines on 346 others for violating the restrictions, DMP Additional Commissioner Iftekharul Islam told the media.

In the three days of the strict lockdown since Thursday, law enforcers have arrested nearly 1,500 people in the capital.

The army has been called in to assist the civil administration in enforcing the restrictions. As many as 106 executive magistrates are conducting mobile courts across the country.

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