Delhi Lockdown Update: The Delhi Police arrested the Daryaganj couple from the viral video for violating the Covid protocols on Monday. The couple, identified as Abha Gupta and Pankaj Dutta, had been noticed misbehaving with the cops in Delhi’s Daryaganj region on Sunday. The video, which has gone viral, showed the lady shouting at the on-duty cops when she was asked for not wearing the face mask. Both Gupta and her husband insisted that they will not put on face masks. Not only masks, but the couple also didn’t have the mandatory curfew pass that was expected for stepping out throughout the weekend curfew. While Dutta was arrested on Sunday itself, news agency ANI says that the wife has been arrested on Monday.
In the video, though cops are noticed calmly asking the couple for the explanation behind not wearing masks, the man and lady start out misbehaving with them. ‘Nahi lagayenge mask, kya kar loge (We won’t put on mask, what will you do),’ the couple mentioned. At one point in the video, the lady says that what if ‘she kisses her husband’. According to the police, the couple is a resident of West Patel Nagar. They have been booked beneath many sections of the Delhi Disaster Management Act.
#WATCH | A couple misbehaved with Delhi Police personnel in Daryaganj region earlier today immediately after they had been stopped & asked the explanation for not wearing face masks.
“An FIR under various sections of IPC has been lodged against them,” say police.
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— ANI (@ANI) April 18, 2021
The video has been posted on many social media internet sites and persons are reacting angrily. Many say that it is since of such persons that India is facing this grim scenario. The Delhi Police kept on reminding the couple about the High Court order that states that even if a individual is also in the vehicle, she/he has to put on a face mask.
Delhi will enter total lockdown from 10 pm today. The six-day lockdown is an try by the Arvind Kejriwal government to not only break the chain but also save the collapsing wellness infrastructure. Apart from Delhi, Rajasthan has also imposed stringent guidelines. The lockdown-like curbs will be in force till May 3rd. India on Monday registered but one more largest-ever spike with more than 2.7 lakh new Covid-19 infections and more than 1,600 deaths.