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An Indian couple has chartered a passenger jet to stage a mid-air wedding that violated coronavirus restrictions by taking more than 160 guests, reports said.
India’s civil aviation authority has ordered an investigation and suspended the crew of the jet, officials said on Monday.
Because of a brutal new coronavirus wave that saw India’s death toll passed 300,000 on Monday, most states only allow 50 guests at weddings but 161 friends and family of the newlyweds were on the jet on Sunday.
The couple, who have not been named, were married as the SpiceJet plane flew over the historic Meenakshi Amman temple on its way from Madurai to Bengaluru, the Hindustan Times newspaper said. – Click the link in bio to read more.