NEPALGUNJ: Police in Banke district have started using improvised man-catcher-stick to arrest those who come out on the streets ignoring the lockdown imposed by government to contain the pandemic COVID-19. In fear of COVID-19, police started using locally made, four to five feet long sticks, which can easily take the offenders into control without direct person-to-person contact, according to Inspector Suraj Khatri at Banke District Police Office (DPO). As many as 48 persons including two women have been arrested in two days, said the DPO. The law enforcers mobilised in various places of Nepalgunj arrested the lockdown offenders until 7:00 pm yesterday, spokesperson at the DPO, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Shiva Bahadur Singh said. Those arrested on the first day were set free after taking a class for an hour, the DSP said, and warned that from now on, strict action would be taken against those who ignore the lockdown regulations.