Noida: The Noida Police on Monday (June 14) carried out a raid at a farmhouse and arrested at least 61 people, including 15 women, for allegedly violating COVID-19 coronavirus restrictions imposed in the city. The arrests were made after the police raid on the property in Sector 135, under the Expressway police station limits, on Sunday night, police officials told PTI.
"A pool party was being held at the Green Beauty farmhouse in the Yamuna floodplains area in Sector 135 in violation of the COVID-19 protocols. A total of 46 men and 15 women were arrested. All accused were bathing in the swimming pool in violation of the pandemic protocols. They were without face masks and some of them were even spitting at various places in the open premises of the farmhouse," a police spokesperson told PTI.
The police said they have recovered 12 bottles of beer and two bottles of whiskey, which were meant for sale in Haryana, from the venue. Several of the arrestees are residents of Delhi, while some are from Ghaziabad and other towns of the NCR, the police said.
An FIR was lodged under Indian Penal Code sections 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant), 269 (unlawfully or negligently spreading infection of any disease dangerous to life), and 270 (malignant act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life), they said.
(With PTI inputs)
