COVID:Inmates in UP jails not allowed to meet relatives on rakshabandhan

Jail authorities in Uttar Pradesh have banned inmates from meeting their relatives on rakshabandhan in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, an official said on Wednesday

The relatives of the inmates can send rakhis for them to the jail counter before or on August 1, District Jail Superintendent AK Saxena said

All the rakhis will be sanitised before being given to the inmates as a precautionary measure, he said.