COVID-19 | Toddy shop crowd pose a challenge to Kerala police
The Hindu
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The State government decision to allow toddy shops even as bars and liquor outlets have remained shut seems to have posed police with the challenge of managing crowd thronging these shops. Some Toddy houses also served in-house, despite clear direction to allow only takeaways. The Ernakulam rural police had registered a case against the manager of a toddy shop at Chully under the Kerala Epidemic Disease Ordinance for such a violation last week. “We have been receiving complaints with videos and pictures from residents near toddy shops of excessive crowding. We act in such specific cases since it is not practical for us to monitor them round-the-clock. They openly flout Covid protocol like wearing masks and maintaining social distance only to fall in line on seeing the police. Such cheating won’t help anyone and will only undermine the collective efforts to control the spread of the pandemic,” said a senior police officer.More Related News
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