A case was registered against them on Tuesday night.
They were shooting for the web series `Your Honor`, a remake of an Israeli web show.
Chandigarh: Actor Jimmy Shergill and National award-winning director Eeshwar Nivas were among 35 booked for flouting COVID-19 lockdown rules while shooting in Punjab`s Ludhiana, police said on Wednesday.
They were shooting for the
A case was registered against them on Tuesday night.
A crew of 150 members was shooting at a set at around 8 p.m., two hours after the curfew to contain the virus came into effect when the police raided the place.
Nivas, along with two others, was arrested but later granted bail.
Jimmy Shergill booked for COVID-19 violations
By Mansoor| Updated: 29th April 2021 12:17 am IST
Chandigarh: Actor Jimmy Shergill and National award winning director Eeshwar Nivas were among 35 booked for flouting COVID-19 lockdown rules while shooting in Punjab’s Ludhiana, police said on Wednesday.
They were shooting for the web series ‘Your Honor’, a remake of an Israeli web show, in a private school without permission and following Covid appropriate behaviour.
A case was registered against them on Tuesday night.
A crew of 150 members was shooting at a set at around 8 p.m., two hours after the curfew to contain the virus came into effect, when the police raided the place.
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A person with a breathing problem receives oxygen support inside her car at a gurdwara amidst the spread of coronavirus disease, in Ghaziabad. (Photo:Reuters)
They were opposing the SC verdict
The police have registered cases against 49 persons for staging a protest against the Supreme Court’s decision to allow the operation of Sterlite Copper’s oxygen plant.
The protesters organised a sit-in in Pandaarampatti on Tuesday. After the police, led by Superintendent of Police S. Jayakumar, and revenue officials told them that an agitation would not be allowed during the pandemic, they dispersed. On Wednesday, personnel attached to the Thoothukudi SIPCOT police station registered a case against protest coordinators Vasanthi, Aruna Devi and 28 other women from Pandaarampatti under the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1987, the Epidemic Diseases (Amendment) Ordinance, 2020, and Sections 143 (unlawful assembly), 269 (unlawfully or negligently does any act which is, and which he knows or has reason to believe to be, likely to spread the infection of any disease dangerous to life) and 270 (malignantly does any act which is, and which he knows or has
No lockdown required on vote counting day: Kerala HC
The bench observed that the government is at liberty to invoke the provisions of the Epidemic Diseases (Amendment) Ordinance against those violators of restriction order.
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KOCHI: Expressing satisfaction over the necessary precautions taken by the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the state government to curtail the spread of Covid-19 during the counting of votes on May 2, the Kerala High Court on Tuesday declined to order a lockdown on the day. While disposing of the petitions seeking a directive to the government to impose a 48-hour lockdown from May 2, a division bench comprising Justice Ashok Menon and Justice C S Dias observed it has nothing to add to the orders issued by the state government and ECI .