Four booked in Ahmedabad for vegetable sale

AHMEDABAD: City police late on Tuesday night arrested the chairman and secretary of a housing society in the Ghatlodia area, for organizing a sale of vegetable for residents in the dark of night to evade police action.
Police officials said that the accused persons were identified as Bhogilal Shah, 70, chairman of the Gaur Tower housing society near Prabhat chowk in Ghatlodia; Paresh Gandhi, 59, secretary of the society; Arvind Patel, 51, a resident and Prakash Patel, 38, a farmer and vegetable seller from Mansa. Though they maintained social distancing while selling the vegetables they disobeyed the notification of the city civic body barring the sale of vegetables and groceries for a week.
Acting on an input, a patrol team of Ghatlodia police reached Gaur Tower late on Tuesday night and found that the chairman, secretary and other residents had gathered in common plot of the society. Police also found that that chairman and secretary had called a farmer from Delvada village of Mansa taluka to sell vegetables to the residents. He had come in a van from Gandhinagar and entered the city despite police deployment.
Police held the four accused and brought them to the police station with a van.
Inspector Pushpa Gamit of Ghatlodia police said that Shah and others were booked for disobeying the notification barring the sale of vegetables and groceries, and charges under the Epidemic Diseases Act, Disaster Management Act and the Gujarat Police Act.