Former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Charged For Violating Covid Guidelines
Harish Rawat led a bullock cart rally on Independence Day. (Report)
Haridwar:
A case has been registered in opposition to former Uttarakhand leader minister Harish Rawat, 3 Congress legislators and 150 others for allegedly violating coronavirus pointers and conserving a protest in Haridwar district, police mentioned on Monday.
Mr Rawat led a bullock cart rally from Dhandera to Landhaura close to Roorkee on Independence Day to lift the problem of dilapidated situation of roads, particularly NH-58 that hyperlinks Uttarakhand with Delhi.
He used to be accompanied by means of Bhagwanpur MLA Mamta Rakesh, Manglaur MLA Qazi Nizamuddin and Kaliyar MLA Furkan Ahmad.
A lot of other folks had accumulated for the rally violating social distancing norms and COVID-19 pointers, Senior Superintendent of Police Senthil Avudai Krishna Raj mentioned.
They’ve been charged underneath related sections of the Indian Penal Code, and likewise the Crisis Control Act, the SSP mentioned.
In Dehradun, BJP state president Bansidhar Bhagat criticised the previous leader minister for “risking the lives of other folks simply to clutch the eye of the media”.
