GUJRAT: Despite a ban by the Punjab government, the Basant festival was celebrated in scattered areas particularly in the downtown of the city on Friday.

The youth of various areas, including city’s A Division, B Division, Lorry Adda and Civil Lines, celebrated basant and played loud music. The kite flyers had announced that they would celebrate basant on Thursday night and Friday.

A spokesman for the Gujrat police told Dawn that the Lorry Adda police had arrested five people on charges of kite flying, whereas nine cases in different police stations had already been registered for flouting the kite-flying ban.

Published in Dawn, February 23rd, 2019