{"id":331596,"date":"2021-04-14T02:45:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T08:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=331596"},"modified":"2021-04-14T02:45:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T08:15:25","slug":"section-144-imposed-in-maharashtra-amid-surge-in-covid-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/section-144-imposed-in-maharashtra-amid-surge-in-covid-infections\/","title":{"rendered":"Section 144 imposed in Maharashtra : amid surge in COVID infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-331597\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/05326C5A-B656-4F99-865C-4AB98E339370.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/04\/05326C5A-B656-4F99-865C-4AB98E339370.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/04\/05326C5A-B656-4F99-865C-4AB98E339370-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Curfew like restrictions will be imposed across Maharashtra from 8 Pm tonight, in an attempt to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.<br \/>\nCalling the situation in the state \u201cfrightful\u201d, chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday announced strict restrictions in Maharashtra for 15 days starting 8pm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">To curb the record rise in virus infections strict guidelines are imposed according to that no one\u2014except those engaged in essential services and those exempted\u2014will be allowed to move in public places without a valid reason, unless it\u2019s for essential work. Only shops with essentials will be allowed to remain open.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe war against Covid-19 has begun once again, but this time the situation is worse than last year. And so we are imposing lockdown-like restrictions in the state. I urge the public to treat it like a \u2018Janta curfew\u2019 and follow it strictly,\u201d said Thackeray. He called it \u2018sancharbandi\u2019 not curfew.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curfew like restrictions will be imposed across Maharashtra from 8 Pm tonight, in an attempt to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. Calling the situation in the state \u201cfrightful\u201d, chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday announced strict restrictions in Maharashtra for 15 days starting 8pm on Wednesday. To curb the record rise in virus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":331597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014],"tags":[14100,12470,14099],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331598,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331596\/revisions\/331598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/331597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}