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NEW DELHI: The home secretary on Thursday requested states to widely circulate information on penal provisions in the Disaster Management Act as well as the Indian Penal Code for violation of lockdown guidelines and asked law enforcement agencies to take suitable action under these provisions.
The latest communication from home secretary Ajay Bhalla to chief secretaries came a day after he asked states/UTs to implement the lockdown measures issued by the MHA in exercise of powers under the Disaster Management Act, 2005, “in letter and spirit, without allowing any exception”.
On Wednesday, Bhalla had, in another letter to states, asked them to create fact-checking mechanisms at their level, on the lin