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Many of those who have faced mobile courts without wearing masks have had to pay cash fines, in addition to free masks.
The image was obtained by observing the hour-long procedure of a mobile court of the Dhaka district administration on Monday.
The mobile court magistrate also handed out free masks to low-income people, not limited to jail fines.
The government has made wearing masks mandatory as part of measures to combat the ‘second wave’ of coronavirus epidemics in Bangladesh.
Since then, the district administration has been holding mobile courts in different parts of Dhaka for the past few days to ensure that masks are worn to prevent the spread of this deadly disease.
A mobile court of the Assistant Commissioner and Executive Magistrate Afrin Haque was sitting at the Institution of Engineers of Ramna around 1315 hours on Monday.
At the beginning, he was that arrested the two young men on a motorcycle and fined Tk 200 for not using mask and sentenced two days in jail for nonpayment.
A young man from Basabo told the magistrate that he did not remember to bring a mask; The other accepted the sentence without showing any excuse.
When they pay the fine, they are encouraged to wear one mask and are given two masks.
The rickshaw driver who came next had a mask on his face, but not on the driver. A mask was lifted, urging the 40-something rickshaw driver to wear a mask.
The magistrate and the policemen of the mobile court did not find anyone even after stopping a bus and trying to identify the masked passengers. Sensing the presence of the court, a couple of passengers were seen quickly hugging the masks.
Magistrate Afrin Haque later found the three women in the rickshaw unmasked; He fired the rickshaw shooter because he was wearing a mask.
One of the women faced the court and took the mask out of the bag, but the other two had no such arrangement. None of them could say why they did not wear masks during the questioning of the magistrate.
Addressing them, Magistrate Afrin said: “If you don’t wear a mask, we can’t do anything with lawsuits and fines.” Please wear a mask. “
The magistrate then fined one of them, Nira, 200 rupees and sentenced him to two days in jail for non-payment. They are protected by cash fines.
Meanwhile, after giving free masks to rickshaw pullers without masks, two young men who were riding in another rickshaw were arrested.
One of them was fined 300 Tk and jailed for four days for non-payment. The two young men said they had no cash at the time.
Then one of them was sent to a bKash agent’s shop to fix someone’s ticket, along with an Ansar member. After that, if they bring money through bKash and pay the fine, they are released with free skins.
When asked why he was not wearing a mask, one of the young men told bdnews24.com: “I really don’t think so. This will not happen again next time. We have been fined 300 rupees. And it has been said, for the family, we should wear our own masks. “
The mobile court went to the Shahbagh intersection in front of the Institution of Engineers around 1:15 pm. In addition to punishing one person, masks were given to low-income people.
Initially, the magistrate fined a man 200 rupees for not wearing a mask in front of Pubali Bank and for smoking in a public place.
Magistrates and law enforcement officers went to the pharmacies on the ground floor of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Medical University building. They did not find anyone without a mask at that time.
However, some rickshaw shooters without a mask were detained by the police and district administration personnel.
When asked why he was not wearing a mask at the time, 60-year-old rickshaw driver Nuru Mia told the magistrate: “He had a mask on and fell on the road.”
Magistrate Afrin Haque ended the mobile court proceedings in the Shahbagh area by speaking to journalists around 2:15 pm.
“We are running this mobile court to raise awareness about masks,” he said. In addition to collecting fines, masks are also distributed.
The section of the Penal Code, which provides for punishment, carries a maximum fine of up to Rs 1,000. Now we are earning between 100 and 300 rupees. Because many people do not remember, they are leaving the house, they are lost, they do not wear masks with lame excuses. “
The magistrate observed that all but one couple wore masks in the lead up to mobile court and other awareness activities.
Afrin Haque said: “A radical change is coming. As we saw at the beginning, most of them had no masks, now most of them wear masks.
“Maybe some people are not using it in the right place. A couple of rickshaw pullers and low-income people don’t have face masks. We are giving them free masks. “
Meanwhile, in a press release, the district administration said that apart from the Shahbagh area, five upazilas from the Dhaka district and the metropolitan court of judges, Motijheel, Jatrabari bus terminal, the Secretariat, Gulistan, Dhanmondi , Wari, Gauchia market and a total of 10 venues were held on Monday under the leadership of 18 executive magistrates. .
As a punitive measure in these courts, 98 people were fined for a total of 20,400 taka in 93 cases.
At the same time, they have distributed a total of 1,400 masks at no cost to the poor and needy, as well as miking awareness and to encourage the use of masks.
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