UP: FIR AGAINST BJP leader for organising cricket match during lockdown

20 persons, including a local BJP leader, were on Thursday booked for violating the lockdown norms by organising a cricket match in Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh. Police said they received a tip-off that a cricket match was being playing amid lockdown at Panapur village in Tikaitnagar area in Barabanki district .

“A cricket match was organised in vioaltion of lockdown rules by gathering over 20 people. After our control room received the information, the police reached the village and stopped the cricket match,” Barabanki SP Arvind Chaturvedi said. Local BJP leader Sudhir Singh was booked for organising the cricket match and violating lockdown norms, police said. An FIR under Sections 269 (negligent act likely to spread infection of any disease) and 188 (disobeying regulation) of the Epidemic Act has been lodged against local BJP leader Sudhir Singh, members of his family and some other people from the village.