It is crack the whip time for Joint Commissioner of Police (Law and Order), Vishwas Nangre Patil, who has given instructions to the force to beef up checking adherence to Covid-19 protocols by the citizens.

The top cop said that the force is poised to intensify action against those found without masks in public places. Ganesh mandals have been told to encourage online darshan. They have also been told to issue tokens for those wanting to come to the mandal to pay their respects to Ganpati bappa. Yet they have to give five tokens at a time in order to control crowds.