Agra: SP leader booked for violating lockdown rules

AGRA: Samajwadi Party 's state unit secretary of the youth wing Salman Shahid along with 24 other people was booked on Monday for allegedly violating lockdown rules by organizing a large gathering for distributing food packets on the eve of Eid-ul-fitr in Aligarh.

According to the FIR, SP leader Shahid, along with village head Noor Hassan and others, including 10 women, distributed food packets without following social distancing norms.

All of them have been booked under section IPC sections 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) and 269 (negligent act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life) and provisions of the Epidemic Diseases Act at Madrak police station Aligarh.