Uttar Pradesh: Three injured in brawl over cricket in lockdown, four held

Abhishek Awasthi | TNN | Updated: Apr 12, 2020, 11:44 IST

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GREATER NOIDA: Four persons were arrested while three, including the village chairperson and her husband, were injured in a scuffle over playing cricket despite the lockdown in Jarcha’s Cholas village.
Police said on Friday evening, the village chairperson’s husband, Bahadur Ali, objected to his nephews and other children playing cricket and then called the police. Rajesh Kumar Singh, DCP (Zone 3), told TOI a police team was sent after the complaint.
“His nephews called their fathers. They started heckling Bahadur Ali. The chairperson also intervened and suffered minor injuries,” Singh added. Police filed an FIR against the chairperson’s brothers and their sons and arrested them.