MUMBAI: Former don
Arun Gawli's daughter Yogita will marry Marathi actor
Akshay Waghmare in a simple home
ceremony at Dagadi Chawl in central Mumbai on Friday amid the COVID-19
lockdown, an official said on Thursday.
The family has informed the Agripada police about the ceremony and only three to four guests each from both families were expected to attend, the official said.
The families have assured the police that they will follow the lockdown rules, he said.
The
wedding was earlier scheduled to take place on March 29, but was postponed due to the lockdown, a source from the family said.
Gawli, who is serving a life sentence in the 2007 Kamlakar Jamsandekar murder case, is now out on parole.
Watch: HD Kumaraswamy’s son Nikhil ties knot with Revathi flouting social distancing norms
Even as weddings and cultural events across the country got cancelled owing to nationwide lockdown amid coronavirus pandemic, one high-profile matrimonial ceremony went as per schedule at the behest of district officials in Karnataka’s Ramanagara. Former Karnataka chief minister and sitting Ramanagara legislator HD Kumaraswamy’s son Nikhil exchanged vows with Revathi, the grand-niece of former Congress state minister M Krishnappa on Friday. All norms lockdown norms of social distancing which the family said it will strictly adhered to were flouted during the grand ceremony at a farmhouse in the district.
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