The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has filed FIRs against political parties and organisations for violating Covid-19 guidelines in the city.
This was informed by BMC Commissioner PC Choudhary on Friday.
Social organisations Madhabananda Trust and SWAP had petitioned the BMC seeking action against the agitators for violating Covid guidelines.
“About 150 persons belonging to a particular political party (meaning BJP) had gathered in front of Utkal Kanika Galeria near Kalpana Square to protest against the shopping mall. It appeared that except for a short period of time, the whole of the congregation was found to be violating social distancing norm,” the BMC said in the FIR.
Besides, FIRs against social activists, Pradeep Pradhan and Srikant Patra, among others have been filed at the Capital police station for demonstration in front of the Congress Bhawan.
Similarly, FIRs against members of Naba Nirman Krushan Sangathan, Youth Congress president Smrutiranjan Lenka and others, Left leaders Janardan Pati, Narayan Reddy and others have been filed at the Nayapally, Capital, Badagada and Kharavel Ngar police stations.
The FIRs have been registered under several Sections of IPC and Epidemic Diseases ACT, 1897.