<span style="color: #222222;">In Uttar Pradesh, an MLA and his six associates have been arrested on the charges of lockdown violation. AIR correspondent reports that Independent legislator Aman Mani Tripathi was arrested yesterday along with six persons at Najibabad in Bijnor district for violating the lockdown.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Two vehicles of the legislator have also been seized. The legislator was returning from Uttarakhand when he was arrested. He has been booked in the Epidemic Act.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The arrest of the MLA comes hours after the state government distanced itself from the legislator''s attempt to travel to Badrinath in Uttarakhand by claiming that he was going to the shrine to pray for the Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's father who passed away recently.</span><br />