A day after Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar asked authorities to take stringent action against people visiting monsoon tourist spots in Pune district on weekends defying Covid-19 norms, the rural police fined 424 revellers till Saturday (July 10) evening and collected Rs 1,99,600 from them, a senior officer said.

"Despite Covid-19 restrictions on weekends, many people came to Lonavala which is one of the famous monsoon tourist spots. We have deployed personnel at various locations in Lonavala city and rural areas. Police penalised 100 revellers visiting Lonavala and collected a fine of Rs 47,000," Pune (rural) Superintendent of Police Abhinav Deshmukh told reporters.