Resort owners in Bathinda booked for big gathering at wedding function

Sameer Singh

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Tribune News Service

Bathinda, March 20

A team of police personnel from the Canal police station reached a resort situated along Ring Road and asked the family members who were holding a wedding function to cut the attendance of guests to a minimum of 20 members. The move was taken as a precautionary measure in the wake of the Covid-19 scare.

The police also booked owners of the resort and dispersed the gathering by asking the guests to leave the venue. The guests were left disheartened after being asked to leave the function mid-way through. Seeing that police personnel were enquiring about owners of the resort, many guests were even seen sneaking through different routes while making their way out of the resort.

As per the police, there were more than 250 guests at the wedding function. By letting a wedding function (or any public event) be organised with more than 20 people, the resort owners had violated directions issued by the government in view of Covid-19. The police said they had booked the owners and appropriate action would be taken against them.

Notably, it was wedding of Ranjit Singh’s daughter at Grand Vivaan resort situated along Ring Road where groom Simarjit Singh along with family members and guests had come as part of the wedding procession (baraat) from Lal Singh Nagar.

ASI Gursahib Singh said, “They ignored the directions issued regarding public gatherings in the wake of coronavirus and no measures to sanitise the place were made. So, we have initiated action against the owners of the resort.”

DSP Gurjit Singh Romana said, “Owners of the resort, Satish Garg and his son Risabh Garg, have been booked under Sections 336 and 188 of the IPC for flouting the directions being issued in view of the Covid-19 scare. We have given permission to the family members of the would-be groom and bride at the wedding venue while guests were asked to leave the venue. The matter would be investigated further.”

Punjab ministerial union for closure of offices till March 31

The Punjab State Ministerial Service Union has written a letter to Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh and other senior state officials demanding that the officials working in the government departments, except those working for Covid-19 awareness, should be granted leave till March 31.

Megh Singh Sidhu, president of the union, in his letter stated that coronavirus had affected most countries of the world and now it had started spreading its tentacles in India and around four cases had been reported in the state. The Punjab Government was making all-out efforts to check its spread in the state and it had ordered the closure of malls, clubs, and other public places.

Even public transport had been shut and many trains cancelled, but no steps had been taken for the employees working in the departments of the state government. As many employees came from far-off places (from a distance of around 100 km) by bus or train, now it would be difficult for them to reach their offices without public transport. Moreover, no equipment had been given to the government employees, who deal with public daily, for their safety against coronavirus.

People, who come from the city and villages, directly handed over their files to employees, putting their lives to the risk of contracting the disease.

Megh Singh Sidhu said due to such reasons they were asking the state government to close all the offices till March 31 so that employees could stay back at their houses and be safe.