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    On day one, cops treat those stepping out sans masks with kid gloves

    A day after the Greater Chennai Corporation Commissioner warned the residents against stepping out of homes without masks, police preferred to treat the violators with kid gloves “as it was day one”.

    On day one, cops treat those stepping out sans masks with kid gloves
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    A policeman helps a child with a mask after the family was stopped for not wearing masks in the city

    Chennai

    “Nobody was booked today as we decided to start with a warning on the first day,” said a senior city police officer adding that strict imposing of the order will be in force in a day or two.

    The motorists and pedestrians found without face masks were warned of strict action from next time onwards. “There will be fine and if they are travelling on vehicles, their vehicles will be seized,” an official noted when asked how are the police going to tackle people without masks in public places.

    “People can wear any masks. It can be a home-made mask or even handkerchief mask,” the commissioner had noted adding those found without masks will lose movement passes irrespective of their reasons to

    commute and that vehicle will also be impounded.

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