New Delhi: Two people in Uttar Pradesh's Hapur were arrested by the police on Wednesday for violating COVID-19 rules as they celebrated the panchayat poll result in the state. Also, the police seized 20 kilograms of 'rasgullas' that was to be distributed as part of the celebration.


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The Hapur Police in a social media post said: “Hapur Police arrested two people who violated Covid guidelines and Section 144 of the CrPC to distribute rasgullas among a gathering. 20 kgs of rasgullas were seized from them." (Tweet translated from Hindi.)



A police statement said, two people were arrested for violating COVID-19 pandemic guidelines and Section 144 of the CrPC which was imposed in the state to distribute rasgullas among a crowd of people."


Earlier, during campaigning for the panchayat polls, the Amroha police had seized 100 kgs of `rasgullas` from the village panchayat candidate Sohanveer. He was allegedly preparing to distribute the `rasgullas` to his voters.