Indian couple rent jet for Covid lockdown-busting mid-air wedding


A video of on-board celebrations posted on social media show people with flowers around their necks and taking selfies. - SCREENGRAB FROM TWITTER

NEW DELHI (AFP): An Indian couple chartered a passenger jet to stage a mid-air wedding that hijacked coronavirus restrictions by taking more than 160 guests, reports said Monday (May 24).

India's civil aviation authority has ordered an investigation and suspended the crew of the jet, officials said.

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