Coronavirus outbreak: Indian police punish lockdown offenders with violence, push ups

As India began its threeweek lockdown on Wednesday, police punished people who ventured outdoors with beatings, and in some cases, pushups, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered 21day nationwide confinement to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus. Police enforced the lockdown by beating people with batons, and in Mumbai, Nagpur, and Mau cities law enforcement resorted to handing out situps and squats in public as punishment. India has reported, so far, 562 positive cases of COVID19 and 11 d