Police went there without uniform like guests, found overcrowding and many more guests than permitted, and booked Chauhan. Cops said that the marriage was held on May 8 and they got an input that the event was overcrowded. Thus, the number of guests increased beyond 100 and Chauhan had to face the music. According to cops, Chauhan had invited 50 men in the wedding, but along with those men, their wives and kids also arrived. Wives, kids came along with men, invitee booked Chandu Chauhan from Davapura village in Nadiad taluka of Kheda district registered his daughter’s wedding with local police and stated in his application that he had only invited 50 persons in the marriage. In all these cases, police booked various persons for conducting act of negligence that could spread the deadly virus, and for disobeying the notification which restricts 50 persons in a wedding, along with other relevant provisions of law.
There are instances where cops booked people when many ‘uninvited guests’ gathered, the groom and his friends did not wear masks and where parents of the bride removed masks during rituals and guests paid no heed to social distancing. Consequently, Covid safety protocol violators are being booked in large numbers.
With the state health infrastructure close to splintering under patient load, cops have turned extra vigilant and begun barging into wedding venues, only to find gross violation of rules. AHMEDABAD: Despite Covid taking its toll on the society and affecting almost every other household with deaths and sickness, people continue to be oblivious of the threat and ignore Covid protocol at weddings and other social gatherings.