Uttar Pradesh: Police in Uttar Pradesh’s Gautam Buddh Nagar lodged an FIR against Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and around 200 other party workers under The Epidemic Diseases Act for not maintaining social distancing and not wearing face masks.
Rahul, Priyanka along with the Congress workers were on their way to Hathras to meet the family of the 19-year-old Dalit woman was gangraped and died in a Delhi hospital. The UP police cremated the body of the victim, without informing the family members. The FIR has been lodged under Indian Penal Code sections 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant), 269 (unlawfully or negligently spreading infection of any disease dangerous to life), 270 (malignant act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life) and under section 3 of the Epidemic Diseases Act, the police said.
Some party members have been booked for indulging in a scuffle during which some women constables were hurt while the uniform of a lady sub-inspector was torn, the Gautam Buddh Nagar police said in a statement. Earlier in the day, around 200 Congress workers, including senior leaders of the party, had started a march on the expressways in Greater Noida after their convoy was stopped near Pari Chowk.
The two Gandhi siblings and around 150 party workers were briefly detained by the police and later released on personal bond, a senior officer told media.
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