As many as six identified persons, including All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) state president, and 70-80 unidentified people were booked for violating prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code and the Covid protocol in Utraula Kotwali area of Balrampur, police said on Monday.
Deputy Superintendent of Police Radharaman Singh said that 70-80 unidentified people besides AIMIM’s UP president Shaukat Ali, party candidate Abdul Mannan, district president Nooruddin, Irfan, Shahid and hotel manager Mujib Khan, were booked under Section 144 of CrPC and for violation of the Covid protocol for gathering a crowd without permission at a hotel in Utraula Nagar.
The DSP said that in the name of holding a press conference, the AIMIM had gathered a huge crowd of party leaders and workers at a private hotel on Sunday without seeking permission for it.
As the matter of violation of the Covid protocol came to the fore during the crowd, legal action is being undertaken after registering a case.