Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, May 12: The police have been seizing a number of vehicles every day for violating curfew guidelines. They now are facing a huge problem of safely parking the vehicles so seized at a spot. They do not have enough space near their police stations to keep these vehicles.

Since April 28 when the curfew was in force, the police took into custody over 1,656 vehicles. The vehicles seized have already been transported from the check posts to the respective police stations but there is no space for more vehicles.

The vehicle owners have to pay fine in the court and then take delivery of vehicles. Because of curfew, court work also has been curtailed. Therefore, it might take about three months for all the vehicles to be released. If the vehicles are damaged in the meantime, the police will have to bear the cost. Now, the responsibility of looking after the vehicles has been given to the staff of the department.

Police commissioner N Shashi Kumar, has asked the people to release their vehicles by paying the fine and to stay at home to control coronavirus infection. He advised people not to unnecessarily move out of their homes.