Sixteen people have been booked for gathering at a religious function at Ratanpur town of Bilaspur district, police said on Friday.
“We had received information that more than a dozen for people had gathered at a Dargah in Ratanpur for attending Sabe-e-Barat,” station house officer (SHO) Ratanpur Krishna Patel.
The sixteen people have been booked under Section 188 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) for violating Section 144, he said while adding that no one has been arrested in this connection until now.
They all were residents of Kahirapara locality of Ratanpur. The district administration has sealed off Kahirapara and Ratanpur Municipal Council will supply essential food item in the locality, the SHO said.
Notably, chief minister Bhupesh Baghel has also appealed to the members of the Muslim community to celebrate ‘Sab-e-barat’ at home so that they could save themselves from the risk of getting exposed to coronavirus.