Mask violators, police play cat & mouse game

Hyderabad: It’s a cat-and-mouse game on the roads. Those not wearing masks are trying to escape from police, while hawk-eyed authorities noticing them are making an attempt to catch them.
Those who are caught are imposed a fine of Rs 1,000 but one may not be able to get away only by paying a fine.
A tahsildar who went out to check how the mask rule is being implemented saw a man and his son walking on the road.At Amarachinta in Wanaparthy, revenue official Sindhuja noticed and father-son and stopped them. The man thought he had no reason to feel jittery as he had a mask on. But Sindhuja’s eyes were on the six-year-old boy who had no mask. The tahsildar made the man do sit-ups on the road to drive into his mind that he had to provide a mask to his son also. “Everyone should wear a mask or else they will face strict action,” the tahsildar told the people who saw this on Sunday.
At LB Nagar in Hyderabad on Monday, a traffic policeman in a vehicle recovery van of Rachakonda police saw two youngsters coming in the wrong direction and not wearing a mask. The policeman quickly got down from the vehicle to nab the youngsters. Within a few seconds, the youth turned their vehicle and sped away giving the policeman little scope to catch them.
In Medak, police stopped autos to check if the passengers were wearing masks and imposed fines on 15 passengers at Mambojipally.
But, police are not having it easy. There were instances of people shouting at cops for wasting their time on the roads after they were stopped for not wearing a mask. In a video that is doing the rounds, a man was seen telling police that they should make a note of the vehicle number and come to his house and not stop him on the road. Police had to exercise patience as the man made unpalatable and objectionable remarks against cops in general.