{"id":86646,"date":"2020-05-24T10:17:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T04:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uniquenewsonline.com\/150-booked-for-attending-grand-funeral-procession-of-cow-in-up-by-defying-lockdown-orders\/"},"modified":"2022-01-12T13:11:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T07:41:58","slug":"150-booked-for-attending-grand-funeral-procession-of-cow-in-up-by-defying-lockdown-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uniquenewsonline.com\/150-booked-for-attending-grand-funeral-procession-of-cow-in-up-by-defying-lockdown-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"150 Booked for Attending Grand Funeral Procession of Cow in UP by Defying Lockdown Orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"article-byno-limg\">\n<div class=\"article-bimg\">\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caption\">Image for representation<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-bnow-box\">\n<h2>The police said that the people, who had gathered for the cow&#8217;s funeral which passed through the streets, had violated all social distancing norms and were not even wearing face masks.<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"article-bnow\">&#13;<\/p>\n<li><strong>IANS<\/strong>  <strong id=\"location_info\" class=\"rtext\">Aligarh<\/strong><\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li><strong>Last Updated:<\/strong> May 24, 2021, 10:17 AM IST<\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<article class=\"article-content-box first_big_character\">&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 150 persons have been booked for being a part of a grand procession organised for the burial of a cow in Aligarh&#8217;s Memdi village in Uttar Pradesh.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The case was registered on Saturday against 25 identified and 125 unidentified persons under sections 188 (disobedience) and 269 (act likely to spread infection) of the IPC and section 3 of the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, after a video of the incident went viral on social media.&#13;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"article-mad\"\/>\n<p>Those booked in the case include about 100 women.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Civil Lines circle officer Anil Kumar said that the locals took out the procession in Memdi village on Thursday morning.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>This abandoned cow was sick for the past few days and was found dead near a general store owned by one Dinesh Chandra Sharma.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The local people then decided to conduct the last rites of the cow with full honours.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Since the cow is considered a &#8216;holy animal&#8217;, it is common to perform the last rites with participation of the local people.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Sharma, the general store owner, said, &#8220;If some people took part in the funeral at their own will, how can I stop them? 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I am ready to face any action.&#8221;&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The cow was staying in the village for the past many years and the local people said that it was their responsibility to give her a proper funeral.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The police said that the people, who had gathered for the cow&#8217;s funeral which passed through the streets, had violated all social distancing norms and were not even wearing face masks.<br \/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n<p>https:\/\/pubstack.nw18.com\/pubsync\/fallback\/api\/videos\/recommended?source=n18english&#038;channels=5d95e6c378c2f2492e2148a2&#038;categories=5d95e6d7340a9e4981b2e10a&#038;query=150,Booked,for,Attending,Grand,Funeral,Procession,of,Cow,in,UP,by,Defying,Lockdown,Orders,Aligarh,Anil,Kumar,&#038;publish_min=2021-05-22T10:22:31.000Z&#038;publish_max=2021-05-24T10:22:31.000Z&#038;sort_by=date-relevance&#038;order_by=0&#038;limit=2<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNext Story\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>(Note: This is a Article Automatically Generated Through Syndication, Here is The Original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news18.com\/news\/india\/150-booked-for-attending-grand-funeral-procession-of-cow-in-up-by-defying-lockdown-orders-2634627.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image for representation The police said that the people, who had gathered for the cow&#8217;s funeral which passed through the streets, had violated all social distancing norms and were not even wearing face masks. &#13; IANS Aligarh &#13; Last Updated: May 24, 2021, 10:17 AM IST &#13; &#13; Nearly 150 persons have been booked for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":86648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[17748,17749,17750,17751,17752,5193,17753,17504],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uniquenewsonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uniquenewsonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uniquenewsonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uniquenewsonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uniquenewsonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uniquenewsonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uniquenewsonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uniquenewsonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uniquenewsonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uniquenewsonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}