Shop owners, vehicles fined for breaking social distancing measures

NEWS DESK

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in separate mobile court drives on Sunday fined different people, vehicles and businesses a total of Tk 31,700 for allegedly violating the government’s social distancing measures amid the ongoing coronavirus shutdown.

Several DMP teams, headed by its executive magistrates, conducted the drives in the capital and fined 16 shop owners, seven vehicles and three people in several cases for breaching the order.

Law enforcement agencies with the help of Bangladesh Army have been implementing the government directives on social distancing throughout the country aiming to stem the spread of coronavirus.