Gujarat: Drive with partner may land both of you in lock-up

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AHMEDABAD: Taking your life partner sitting on the adjoining seat of your car or making her ride pillion on a two-wheeler is the habit that you must leave now as police will book you for not maintaining social distancing and for the disobedience to the lockdown order in Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar cities.
According to an FIR lodged with Vastrapur police station, the cops deployed at Judges Bungalow crossroads in Bodakdev area to enforce the lockdown spotted a car at around 10am on Sunday. A man was driving the car and a woman was seated on the adjoining seat.
“When we asked the couple why they were out during the lockdown, the man, Digvijaysinh Zala (27), a resident of Bopal, said he had come to Bodakdev to buy medicines and had brought his wife along with him to give him a company. We booked the couple for the violation of the lockdown order and for the disobedience to a notification issued by the government servant,” said an official from Vastrapur police station.
“We have come across many men who bring their wives along when they go out to buy grocery, vegetables and milk. This attitude has to be changed ,” added the official.
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