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Chennai, May 24
The Greater Chennai Police have deployed 20,000 policemen to enforce a strict lockdown that came into effect early Monday and will continue till May 31.
The police have registered a total of 3,980 cases for violating lockdown norms and seized 3,446 vehicles till Saturday, according to a press release from the city police.
Greater Chennai Police commissioner Shankar Jiwal has made the restrictions strict by dividing the city into 348 sectors. E-registration was made mandatory to travel within the city and 320 checkpoints were set up to restrict travel.
Police have erected barricades even in interior stretches and all the flyovers are closed.
The police commissioner appealed to the public not to venture out and warned them they will be booked if found unnecessarily loitering around.