NEWS DESK

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in separate mobile court drives on Monday fined different vehicles and business entities a total of Tk 67,000 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 42 shop owners and 13 vehicles in 55 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.