Bulandshahr: Over 100 Booked for Violating Covid Norms at Gathering Over Ghaziabad Assault Case
News 18Police in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district on Thursday booked a Samajwadi Party worker and over 100 people for allegedly flouting COVID-19 norms during a public address in connection with the alleged attack on an elderly Muslim in Ghaziabad. Local Samajwadi Party worker in Ghaziabad Ummaid Pehelwan Idrisi and four other persons identified as Tajuddin, Firoz Mewati, Aalam and Javed have been named as accused, according to the FIR, which was lodged at 4 pm on Thursday over a complaint by a policeman. “I was on a patrol duty in my area Anoophshahr, when I got to know that Ummaid Pehelwan Idrisi along with others had addressed a crowd at a chowk here at 9 pm on June 16 despite COVID-19 restrictions imposed in the state from 7 pm to 7 am in connection with the incident that took place with Abdul Shamad Saifi on June 5,” Sub-Inspector Bahadur Singh alleged. Samajwadi Party worker Idris has already been booked by police in Ghaziabad for circulating Saifi’s video, in which he narrated the ordeal of the attack on him, allegedly after giving it a communal colour and with an intention to disrupt public peace.