Pune: NCP office bearers flout norms, booked

PUNE: The police on Sunday registered a case against the Nationalist Congress Party’s (NCP) city unit office bearers and 150 others for violating social distancing norms by gathering in large numbers at a function to inaugurate its new headquarters near Shramik Bhavan, Dengle bridge, on Saturday.
Senior state NCP leader and deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, who had presided over a Covid-19 review meeting earlier in the day, inaugurated the new headquarters. The police have collected some photographs and videos of the crowd on Saturday.
NCP’s youth wing president Mahesh Hande had sought police permission to use loudspeakers for a small function. Police permitted the function while asking organisers to follow all Covid protocols. However, six to seven office bearers and a number of NCP workers gathered for the function at around 5pm on Saturday, the police said.