Doc held for violating Covid norms at son’s wedding

Rajkot: A doctor, along with the hotel owner and manager, were on Friday booked for violation of Covid-19 guidelines. According to police more than 100 guests attended the wedding reception of Dr K K Rawal’s son held a Rajkot hotel on last Sunday. The government has capped the guest limit to 50 for wedding functions.
The Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) officials said Dr K K Rawal, a gastroenterologists, hotel owner Sumit Patel and manager Sanjay Sharma were arrested on Friday. They were booked under various sections of Epidemic Diseases Act. Bride’s father Bharat Vyas too has been booked but is yet to be arrested.
“We received a tip-off that a wedding reception was organized by Dr K K Rawal for his son in a hotel on Kalawad Road on April 25 where more than allowed limit of guests were present. Based on this, we probed and analysed hotel’s CCTV footage and found that over 100 people attended the function. No social distancing rules were followed during the function and only a few of the guests wore face masks,” a police official said.