JAIPUR/AHMEDABAD: In mounting hostility towards those at the frontline of the Covid-19 battle, police teams trying to enforce the lockdown in viral hotspots faced mob attacks in Rajasthan’s Tonk and Gujarat ’s Bapunagar, leaving at least three cops injured and inviting a spate of arrests since Thursday.Rajasthan deputy CM Sachin Pilot , who is the MLA from Tonk, warned of a crackdown if curfew violators resorted to unprovoked assault on the police. Tonk’s additional SP Vipin Sharma said three policemen who were patrolling the Kasai Mohalla on Friday had to be hospitalised after coming under attack for asking people to abide by the curfew.“A mob gathered and rained stones and sticks on them,” he told TOI. Eight of the alleged attackers were arrested and booked for attempt to murder.Gujarat witnessed two instances of police teams being attacked in Ahmedabad’s Bapunagar on Thursday. Around 30 to 40 people had pelted cops with stones near Soneria block on Thursday. “When police tried to book four people for violating the lockdown, one of them identified himself as a Navy man and snatched a policeman’s stick,” an officer said regarding the second incident.