These tourists were put in coronavirus detention — and made to write lines.
Police in India issued old-school punishments to dunces flouting strict quarantine rules — making them write out “I didn’t follow lockdown. I am sorry” at least 500 times, according to a report.
Uttarakhand Police’s Vinod Kumar told the Hindustan Times that his officers gave the unusual punishment to 10 tourists from Israel, Australia and Mexico who were caught heading to a popular spot by the Ganga River to “chill.”
He got his men to bring “50 to 60 blank pages” — and warned the tourists that if they did not write the apology “they will be blacklisted, which will bar them from entering India again.”
“They then agreed to the punishment and wrote the apology out 500 times at the spot,” Kumar told the paper.
“They were then let off with a stern warning and told not to venture out without any reason,” the police official said.
He told them it was a “light punishment” — with other officers in India filmed flogging those who broke the nation’s lockdown.
It is not the first unexpected punishment there, either, with previous violators being made to do squats, push-ups and sit-ups in the street.