Malegaon man, who made TikTok video wiping nose, mouth with currency notes, arrested

A Nashik man was arrested this week for a TikTok video showing him wiping his nose and mouth with currency notes, while all of India is under lockdown to slow the spread of a potentially fatal respiratory disease caused by a novel coronavirus.

Sayyad Jameel Sayyad Babu, 38, was arrested Thursday in Malegaon.

"After the video went viral, we arrested him. He has been remanded in police custody till April 7 by a court in Malegaon," an official was quoted as saying by PTI.

Maharashtra has 423 coronavirus cases, and as many as 19 have died of Covid-19, the respiratory illness caused by the pathogen, government data show.