<p class="title">Madikeri rural police have registered a first information report (FIR) against six persons on the charge of staying at a resort at Vatekadu in Hodduru, by obtaining medical passes after furnishing false information, in violation of the lockdown regulations.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Tourists Benaka Kumar, Sandeep, Vinay, Padmashree and Rakshina have been taken to the police custody. A car used by them has also been seized.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The police have also named resort owner Vinod Chinnappa in the FIR. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The police said Vinod Chinnappa had provided wrong information about the health of his mother and availed pass on April 14 to call others to Kodagu.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The tourists are from Bengaluru and Tumakuru origin. The incident came to light during a joint raid conducted by Madikeri rural police and Kodagu CCB police.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Earlier, the district administration had temporarily sealed a resort for allegedly accommodating tourists.</p>.<p class="bodytext">SP Dr Suman D Pennekar said that some people from other districts have been trying to stay in the resorts and homestays here violating the lockdown orders.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Stern action will be taken against such people and also against the owners of the resort, she added.</p>
<p class="title">Madikeri rural police have registered a first information report (FIR) against six persons on the charge of staying at a resort at Vatekadu in Hodduru, by obtaining medical passes after furnishing false information, in violation of the lockdown regulations.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Tourists Benaka Kumar, Sandeep, Vinay, Padmashree and Rakshina have been taken to the police custody. A car used by them has also been seized.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The police have also named resort owner Vinod Chinnappa in the FIR. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The police said Vinod Chinnappa had provided wrong information about the health of his mother and availed pass on April 14 to call others to Kodagu.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The tourists are from Bengaluru and Tumakuru origin. The incident came to light during a joint raid conducted by Madikeri rural police and Kodagu CCB police.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Earlier, the district administration had temporarily sealed a resort for allegedly accommodating tourists.</p>.<p class="bodytext">SP Dr Suman D Pennekar said that some people from other districts have been trying to stay in the resorts and homestays here violating the lockdown orders.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Stern action will be taken against such people and also against the owners of the resort, she added.</p>