Our Correspondent
Tarn Taran, July 4
The local police arrested 26 persons, including four women, for violating the Covid restrictions by attending a cocktail party at a resort in Gohalwar village here last night.
Those arrested belonged to well-off families. Akash Sharma, a resident of Chhehtra (Amritsar) and owner of Irish Beach Resort, and business partner Prabhjit Singh, also from Amritsar, were among those held.
The police team raided the resort around 10.30 pm and found it operational, in violation of the state government orders to close such establishments by 9 pm. Most of the suspects were found consuming liquor and hookah, while some were swimming in the pool.
DSP Sucha Singh Bal, who led the police team, said they recovered 14 hookahs, 37 bottles of whisky and 132 bottles of beer from the scene. Sharma failed to produce a licence to run the bar at the resort, he said.
The suspects had been booked under Sections 188 and 269, IPC; 61, 1 and 14, Excise Act; and 51 and 52, Disaster Management Act, said the DSP. The police were investigating their possible involvement in any other anti-social activity.
26 nabbed at resort for flouting Covid norms
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