In what it claims to be the first case of its kind in India, a man in Ahmedabad was fined for spitting paan masala at a public place.
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has fined Mahesh Kumar from Ahmedabad’s eastern suburb of Naroda Rs 100. He was caught spitting on CCTV near the Sardar Patel Statue Road. The civic body issued an e-memo for violation of public health laws.
In an official statement issued by the the AMC, it was reportedly said that with the view to keep the city, which was selected as the top city in the national cleanliness survey, clean the civic body has made a provision of issuing E-memo to those found spitting Pan Masala at a public place or roads.
The corporation said that this is the first such case in the country.
Ahmedabad was recently selected as the top city in a national cleanliness survey.
