Three booked for entering Dang from Maharashtra

TNN | May 5, 2020, 04:00 IST

Surat: At least three persons were booked for entering Dang district from Maharashtra violating lockdown rules at Saputara police station on Monday.
A complaint was lodged against Ulashya Pavar, 50, and his wife Seeta Pavar, 45, residents of Vanar village of Ahwa taluka of Dang district. The second case relates to Suraj Khairad, 43, a resident of Baripada village of Vaghai taluka. He was also booked at Saputara police station for entering Dang via forest route in violation of the rules.
“When we were patrolling near Vanar village we found two persons walking on road. They told us that they had gone to Maharashtra’s Vadner village to work as agricultural labourers and were now returning to their village,” police said. The couple had entered Dang district from Maharashtra’s Kanchaghat. Khairad had also gone to work as agricultural labourer in the neighbouring state. Khairad said there was no work there after lockdown and hence he was forced to return home, police said.
Over 25 FIRs have been filed in Dang against people who entered the district from Maharashtra in the past few weeks. So far Dang district has reported three Covid-19 positive cases.