The Election Fee served a discover to the organisers of an iftar occasion on a busy highway in Karnataka’s Mangalore on Friday.
Iftar is a meal held daily throughout Ramadan after sundown. Muslims break their quick with this meal.
The ballot physique’s discover got here after a number of movies went viral on social media, exhibiting rows of chairs being organized and meals plates being positioned on one aspect of the highway within the metropolis’s busy Mudipu Junction space.
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After the video went viral, social media customers questioned why the iftar occasion was held on a public highway as a substitute of indoors or at a public corridor.
The Iftar occasion was attended by a number of rickshaw drivers, merchants and locals of the world.
The ballot panel’s discover was served to the organiser of the occasion, recognized as Abu Bakar, for inflicting public nuisance by blocking the highway by holding the iftar occasion.
Notably, the Mannequin Code of Conduct (MCC) is in place in Karnataka after the announcement of the Lok Sabha polls schedule, following which the administration is straight below the management of the Election Fee.
