Father son arrested for attacking police infect 21 people with Covid-19
Bhopal/IBNS: Two men, arrested on Apr 7 along with five others, under the stringent National Security Act for attacking policemen in Indore, have infected at least 21 people with coronavirus, media reports said.
The infected people include 18 jail inmates, 2 jail guards and 1 trainee IPS officer, the reports said.
The two men are father and son, and identified as Nasir Khan and Javed Khan, respectively.
After being arrested from Indore's COVID containment zone for the attack they were huddled together in a jail without being sent for quarantine and testing, an official of Indore’s COVID-19 combat team told Hindu.
On April 10, Javed Khan tested positive for COVID-19, after which his father Nasir Khan's samples were taken, said reports. After Nasir Khan also tested positive, all the 125 inmates of Indore Central Jail, where he was kept, were sent for isolation to a hostel-turned-quarantine centre, jail officials said, reported media. All of them had Covid-19 like symptoms, they added.
"Nasir was brought to Indore Central Jail on April 8. As he hailed from a containment zone, instead of lodging him at the jail barracks with other inmates, we put him at the isolation ward in the jail. On April 10, we came to know that his NSA detainee son Javed had tested positive for the deadly virus, after which Nasir was shifted to MY Hospital in Indore on April 11. At the hospital, his COVID-19 test was done and the report came out positive on April 14. Since then Nasir is hospitalised," said Indore Central Jail superintendent Rakesh Kumar Bhangre, a New India Express report said.
Four infected inmates have been admitted to the MRTB hospital, while others are kept at the quarantine centre.
A Hindu report said, Javed Khan escaped a government hospital in Jabalpur where he was undergoing treatment for Covid-19. He took a lift in a truck from Narsinghpur district and then tried to reach Indore on a motorcycle. He was traced and arrested him at a checkpost.
The police men, who had come in contact with him, including a 2017 batch IPS officer, went into quarantine. Later, the IPS officer tested positive for coronavirus.
On April 7, a team of policemen and members of Nagar Suraksha Samiti, a formal body of civilian volunteers formed to help police, was enforcing lockdown in Chandan Nagar area of Indore, when a police constable asked some men roaming in the streets to go home and not to loiter during curfew. Instead of listening to the police the men attacked the team. All the accused were identified and sent to jail.
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