Gujarat: Navsari groom, kin booked for guests gathering at wedding

SURAT: A groom in Navsari and his two family members were booked at Vijalpore police station Tuesday afternoon as they had invited more than 150 guests for the wedding ceremony.
Police said that they had received information that more than 150 people were present at Patil community’s hall in Vijalpore following which they went to check. “When we reached, we found more than permitted number of guests who had not even maintained social distancing and some of them were without masks,” said a police official.
After the intervention of police, many guests left the venue, however, an offence was registered against the groom Yogesh Patil and his uncles Narayan Patil and Dushyant Patil.
Police said that Narayan and Dushyant were detained immediately, while the groom will be detained later as his wedding ceremonies were still pending. Recently, the state government had increased the cap on permissible guests for wedding ceremonies to 150 as the state is witnessing a downward trend in the number of Covid-19 cases.
In Valsad district too, police conducted random checks at weddings held at Narmada Bhawan marriage hall on Tuesday afternoon and fined two people of Rs 2,000 as they had not wearing masks.