Vadodara: Owner, employees of mobile and appliances shops held

VADODARA: An owner and employees of an electronic appliances shop and a mobile phone showroom were arrested for keeping the shops open and not maintaining social distancing norms during lockdown.
Sleuths of detection of crime branch of city police raided Mobilewala on Rajmahal Road and Krish Enterprises Maneja on Saturday. “We had received information a couple of days back that the two shops were being kept open and customers allowed inside for sale so we conducted a raid on Saturday,” said inspector A B Jadeja.
At Mobilewala, manager Dharmesh Mistry and other employees Umesh Shah, Abhijit Mali and Yash Mistry were arrested. At Krish Enterprises, owner Pramod Daswani and his employees Jayesh Tailor Yogesh Chauhan, Bhojraj Vasmani, Sanjay Parmar and Pratik Chauhan were arrested.
Police said they used to keep the shutter doors closed so that nobody becomes suspicious. “Whenever a customer arrived, they would let him in and close the shutter again,” Jadeja added.
Offences of violation of public notification were registered against them at Navapura and Makarpura police stations.