A bridegroom, Parameswar Bhukta of Nuapada village under the Phiringia police limits in Kandhamal district, was arrested for organising his marriage on Monday for flouting anti-corona norms.
Around 80 people had come to attend the marriage function.
As many as 16 persons were arrested on the day across the State for flouting COVID-19 rules. While 11 persons were arrested in Phulbani for not downing shutters, five were held in Bhadrak on similar charges.
Kendrapada district’s Derabish Additional Tehsildar Pramod Mohanty lodged an FIR against a UAE returnee for violating the home quarantine protocol.
The Dhanupali police in Sambalpur district registered a case against a youth of the Sunapali-Sarla area of Sambalpur city who returned from Uzbekistan but didn’t inform the local administration about his return.
