The groom’s father was charged with violating COVID-19 guidelines during the wedding ceremony.
Patna:
The father of a man who recently died here after showing coronavirus-like symptoms has been charged with violating pandemic guidelines issued at the wedding ceremony, which had sparked the world‘s largest chain of Bihar infection, the district administration announced Friday. .
The FIR was filed Thursday evening against Ambika Chaudhary, whose son died on June 17, two days after having tied the knot when he suffered from a high fever, the statement said.
The body was cremated by family members before authorities learned of the episode. However, test camps were set up in the village of Deehpali under the Paliganj block and out of 259 samples collected, 95 were tested positive.
Subsequently, all those found infected were sent to isolation centers while an investigation was ordered by district magistrate Kumar Ravi to investigate any violation of the standards during the marriage ceremony.
“It was found that more than 50 people attended the ceremony and social distancing and the wearing of masks were not guaranteed. As a result, BDO Chiranjeev Pandey filed an FIR against Chaudhary at the Paliganj police station in under the relevant provisions, “added the press release.
The groom was a Gurugram-based software engineer who had returned home the last week of May to get married. He started showing symptoms a few days before June 15, the date of the wedding.
The family reportedly refused to postpone the marriage despite requests from the sick groom.
