Delhi: Cafe owner arrested for serving alcohol & hookah illegally, 32 booked for violating Covid norms

A cafe owner was arrested for serving alcohol and hookah illegally at a party in Delhi's Krishna Nagar area. As many as 32 people have also been booked for allegedly violating Covid-19 norms on Thursday night.

A cafe owner has been arrested and thirty-two people -- 24 men and 8 women -- have been booked for allegedly violating Covid-19 norms by partying with alcohol and hookah at the food joint in Delhi's Krishna Nagar area, police said on Friday. A raid was conducted by a police patrol team on Thursday night around 2:30 am after the control room informed them about some boys and girls partying at the cafe amid loud noises without following social distancing norms, R Satyasundaram, deputy commissioner of police (Shahdara), said.