Watch: Hundreds gather at Gujarat temple amid Covid surge

Cocking a snook at Covid-19 norms, a large number of women turned up at a religious event organized in a village in Gujarat's Ahmedabad district on Tuesday. Irony is that women reportedly assembled in hundreds to pray for the "eradication of coronavirus". Police said 23 people, including the village head, have been arrested.

A video of the incident, which occurred in Navapura village in Sanand taluka on May 3, showed around 500 women carrying water pots on their heads while walking towards a temple. The video grab also shows some men taking these pots to the top of the temple and emptying them.

After the video clip went viral on Wednesday, Ahmedabad rural police said appropriate action had already been taken.