Three booked for keeping call centre, factory open

Vadodara: Manjalpur police booked the owners and administrators of a call centre and a power engineering company for keeping their establishments open violating the provisions of section 144 of criminal procedure code (CRPC).

While patrolling on Monday afternoon, a team of cops from Manjalpur police station received information that a company Power Mech at shed 796 of Makarpura GIDC has been kept open. When cops went inside the company, owner Rahul Dhadge and some workers were busy with production work. Police got the company closed down immediately and booked Dhadge for violation of the public notification.

Similarly on Sunday evening, police reached Kochar Call Centre and saw some people entering and exiting the building. “When our staff went inside, around 170 employees were sitting in a closed space and doing their work like normal days. We asked the manager and admin officer to shut the call centre immediately and let all the staff members leave,” said a police official. The manager Deviprasad Shetty and admin officer Yogesh Parmar were booked for violation of the notification.

The public notification issued by the special branch of city police prohibits gathering of more than four people at one place in the wake of coronavirus pandemic scare. The notification was issued on March 20 and will remain in place till March 31.