Jammu, March 22: A hotel owner, namely Ajaz Ahmad was arrested and and booked under section 188 Indian Penal Code (IPC) for allegedly flaunting government order by not providing information about a British guest in Ramban district.
The hotel owner has violated the district magistrate order by not providing information about the foreign guest in his hotel, who had stayed in the hotel near Banihal Railway station during the intervening night of March 19 and 20, otherwise he was supposed to visit Kashmir, where the entry of foreign nationals was banned by the administration on March 17 as part of efforts to check the spread of coronavirus.
The foreigner was noticed by some policemen while he was on his way way to the Banihal railway station to take a a train to Kashmir and subsequently taken to district hospital Ramban for a checkup & was later shifted to Jammu.
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