Cutting a cake and lighting crackers on a city road here as part of a birthday celebration has landed four young men behind bars for violation of traffic rules, police officials said.
The accused were arrested on Sunday after purported videos of the incident surfaced on social media, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Noida) Shakti Mohan Avasthy said.
“The incident took place on the Elevated Road in the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday under the Sector 24 police station limits. In videos of the incident, four people were seen celebrating a birthday on the road. The local police took cognizance of the matter and arrested them,” Avasthy said.
The Noida-registered Maruti Brezza car used by the quartet has also been impounded and further legal proceedings under relevant provisions of the law have been initiated against them, the officer said.
Those held have been identified as Lalit Sharma, Deepak Patel, Shekhar Chaudhary and Tarun Sharma, all in their early 20s, the police said.
