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  • MP: Cop shunted out for forcing kids to perform sit-ups after video goes viral

    By PTI
    BHOPAL: A police personnel was removed from field duty after he forced a group of children to perform sit-ups for bathing in Bhopal’s Upper Lake in violation of coronavirus-induced restrictions, a senior official said on Tuesday.

    A diver of the Bhopal Municipal Corporation caught a few children taking a bath in the lake on Sunday.

    A video which went viral showed a police personnel attached to a Dial-100 vehicle questioning them.

    “These children will be forced to do sit-ups as punishment so as to teach them a lesson and then only they will be allowed to go home as they came out in violation of lockdown,” the diver is heard saying in the video.

    After the video came to light, the police personnel, who is of assistant sub-inspector rank, was `line-attached’ (removed from field duty), officials said.

    Deputy Inspector General of Police Irshad Wali confirmed the action taken against him.

  • ‘Corona curfew’ in Bhopal extended till May 3 as COVID situation worsens in Madhya Pradesh

    By PTI
    BHOPAL: The ‘corona curfew’ imposed in Bhopal of Madhya Pradesh to tackle the surge in COVID-19 cases has been extended till May 3, an official said on Sunday.

    The curfew in the state capital was set to end at 6 am on April 26.

    It has been extended in Bhopal and Berasia town of the district till 6 am on May 3, an order by Collector Avinash Lavaniya said.

    A week-long ‘corona curfew’ was first imposed in Bhopal city from 9 pm on April 12 to curb the rising cases of COVID-19.

    It was further extended for another week from April 19 to April 26.

    It has now been extended for one more week.

    Essential services will be exempted from the corona curfew and people arriving in the city or leaving by rail, bus etc will not be inconvenienced, officials said.

    Bhopal on Saturday reported 1,776 fresh cases, pushing its infection count to 78,934, including 707 fatalities.