VARANASI: The two boatmen, who had taken cricketer Shikhar Dhawan on a boat ride in the Ganga during his recent visit and did not tell him about the ban on feeding birds due to the bird flu scare, were traced and booked by Varanasi police for violating prohibitory orders.
The two, boatman Pradeep Sahani and his sailor Sonu, have also been barred from operating their boats in the Ganga for four days. Circle officer Dashashwamedh Awadhesh Pandey told TOI on Monday, “We succeeded in tracing the boatman Pradeep Sahani and his sailor Sonu, who took Dhawan for boating in the Ganga last night. They had taken cricketer Shikhar Dhawan on their boat without providing him a life jacket, and also did not stop him from feeding migratory birds during the ride despite being aware that this practice had been banned by the district administration in view of the bird flu scare.”
The two have been booked under Section 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) of IPC for the violation of prohibitory orders and have also been barred from operating their boats in the Ganga for four days, he added.