Covid-positive Kangra woman booked
Lalit Mohan
Tribune News Service
Dharamsala, March 21
Sarla Devi, who had tested positive for coronavirus at Tanda Medical College in Kangra yesterday, was booked under Section 270 of the IPC for not cooperating with the authorities concerned and not informing them about her recent Dubai visit. Under the said section, she can be sentenced for two years in jail.
Sarla Devi, a resident of Doba village in the Shahpur area of Kangra district, had returned to Kangra from Dubai on March 17 but had not informed the authorities concerned. She later tested positive for coronavirus at Tanda Medical College. Many people, who were in contact with her, have now been quarantined.
Kangra SP Vimukt Ranjan said that yesterday after getting information that Sarla Devi had returned from Dubai the district authorities asked her to report at Tanda Medical College. She, however, did not cooperate and switched off her mobile phone. It took efforts on the part of the authorities to bring her to Tanda Medical College where she tested positive for Covid-19 in preliminary tests. Her all family members have also been quarantined now.
The SP said that a family member of Dinesh Kumar, a resident of Lanj area of Kangra district who had also tested positive for coronavirus, has also been booked under Section 270 of the IPC for refusing to go into home quarantine. Family members of Dinesh, who had returned from Singapore recently, had been quarantined.
He added that the proprietors of the Prem Bus service had been booked for violating the ban on plying buses in the district.
Deputy Commissioner Rakesh Prajapati today decided to strictly implement Section 144 of the CrPC in its jurisdiction. He announced that anyone found violating the orders would be prosecuted under Section 188 of the CrPC, which entails six months jail.
He said people, who were not reporting their recent foreign visits to the health authorities, would be prosecuted under Section 270 of the IPC, as they posed a threat to the general health of people at large.
CMO GD Gupta said that the total number of asymptomatic cases in Kangra district are 575. He added that 52 of the total asymptomatic cases had completed 28 days of observation, 180 had left the state while 150 persons were in quarantine in their homes. There are two persons in quarantine in hospital.
The administration is also tracing 191 people, who had travelled abroad in the recent past. People are now passing information regarding such cases to the administration — 47 such cases were reported yesterday.
