BJP leader, 19 others booked for organising cricket match during lockdown in UP

Mangalore Today News Network

Lucknow, Apr 23, 2020: At least 20 persons, including a local BJP leader, were on Thursday booked for violating the lockdown norms by organising a cricket match in Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh.

Police said they received a tip-off that a cricket match was being playing amid lockdown at Panapur village in Tikaitnagar area in Barabanki district, IndiaToday reported.

 

“A cricket match was organised in vioaltion of lockdown rules by gathering over 20 people. After our control room received the information, the police reached the village and stopped the cricket match,” Barabanki SP Arvind Chaturvedi said.

Local BJP leader Sudhir Singh was booked for organising the cricket match and violating lockdown norms, police said.

An FIR under Sections 269 (negligent act likely to spread infection of any disease) and 188 (disobeying regulation) of the Epidemic Act has been lodged against local BJP leader Sudhir Singh, members of his family and some other people from the village.

Meanwhile, the patient who had tested positive for novel coronavirus from the district has been discharged from the hospital after his recovery, health officials said

Barabanki is among 11 districts in UP which have been declared Covid-19 free with no active case at present. However, the district authorities have been instructed by the state government to continue exercising caution and ensure that people abide by all advisories that have been issued to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus.

The police in Barabanki city has barricaded all the intersections and those engaged in essential services are only being allowed to come on the road.