kolhapur after a person who was illegally travelling from mumbai to karnataka tested positive for covid19 the police have increased the vigilance on the roads connecting kolhapur district to other districts police have increased the checking of vehicles entering kolhapur district from mumbai and pune and are ensuring that the vehicles carrying essential commodities do not have passengersthe covid19 patient was among 30 people who were illegally travelling in a truck from santacruz mumbai to their native place in karnataka police detained them at kini toll plazasuperintendent of police abhinav deshmukh said the timely action of our police personnel by detaining these people who were illegally travelling and admitting all of them to the chhatrapati pramila raje cpr civil hospital for covid19 testing helped us in detecting one patient and containing the spread of the disease the police have increased vigilance after this incident to ensure that no one enters or leaves kolhapur district without any valid reasonour teams are present at all the major roads bordering the district and are keeping a check on the vehicular movements the teams are also keeping a check on the arterial roads connecting the villages with the main roads and the natural borders of the district like rivers to ensure that no one enters the district through those said a senior police officerwith the relaxation on some of the vehicular movements from monday our role has increased to ensure that only those people with valid reasons can travel on the roads he said