NEW DELHI, Apr 17: A teacher of a government ashram school and a police patil (village in-charge) were placed under suspension in Maharashtra on Saturday for violation of Covid-19 norms in organizing a pre-marriage function.
The teacher Devram Dandekar held the “haldi” ceremony in connection with his daughter’s marriage at the premises of his ashram school in Udhva village in Talasari taluka in Dahanu district on Thursday. The ceremony was attended by over 400 invitees in violation of the Covid-19 norms set by the government which has restricted not more than 25 people to attend any marriage ceremonies, an official said.
An offence was registered against the teacher and he was placed under suspension. In addition, Vasant Sarde, the police patil of Dundalwadi village, was also suspended as he being an associate of the law and order machinery at the village level was supposed to inform his superiors about the event but failed to do so, the official said.
The state government has been asking people to cancel or push back such events in view of the COVID-19 surge and in case the change of dates was not possible, allow no more than 25 guests to attend it.
(Manas Dasgupta)
