Rs 8 lakh fine recovered from SOP violators

Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, June 23: Police today said to have recovered over Rs 8 lakh from more than 5000 COVID-19 SOP violators across Kashmir in the last 24 hours.
“Continuing its efforts to curb the outbreak of 2nd wave of Coronavirus, during the last 24 hours Police have lodged 02 FIRs and also realized fine to the tune of Rs 8,49,940/- from 5674 people throughout the Kashmir valley for violating the various guidelines/rules/SOPs regarding Covid-19,” police said.
It said that the special drive against the violators of Covid-19 guidelines continued throughout all the districts of Kashmir Valley to ensure that people adhere to SOPs envisaged by the government to curb the COVID-19 pandemic.