23,094 FIRs filed, 54,919 arrested in Delhi from March 2020 to March 2022 for violation of COVID norms: Vidhi report

India’s response to contain the spread of COVID-19 was to enforce a nationwide lockdown on March 24, 2020. Law enforcement agencies were armed with penal provisions of the Epidemic Disease Act of 1897 (ED Act), the Disaster Management Act of 2005 (DM Act) and the Indian Penal Code, (IPC) to ensure compliance.