Five people were booked in Satara in Maharashtra for violating social distancing rules in place to tackle the coronavirus outbreak by organising a religious event on March 13 in which over 5,000 people participated, police said on Sunday.
These five are members of the ‘Bavdhan Yatra Sanyojan Samiti’ that organises the ‘Bavdhan Yatra’ in Wai in Satara, some 230 kilometers from the metropolis.
Police identified them as Rajendra Abaji Bhosle, Deepak Dilip Nanaware, Ankush Jagannath Kumbhar , Sachin Appaso Bhosle and Sambhaji Shivaji Dabhade.
An official said they have been booked under section 188 of the IPC and section 153 of the Maharashtra Police Act, but no arrests have been made as yet.
A case was also registered in Shirdi in Ahmednagar district against some people for organising a ‘parikrama’ by flouting social distancing orders in place to stop the novel coronavirus outbreak, an official said.
