At least three persons in the National Investigation Agency (NIA), including a terror accused, Hina Bashir Beg have tested positive for Covid-19.
About 30 other persons, including the entire probe team and Control Room personnel, have home been home quarantined.
Meanwhile CBI SP Rohit Kapoor has also tested positive for Covid-19, his doctor wife and mother have also also infected with the novl Coronavirus. Residents of the CBI colony here who have been traced to be in contact with the infected official have been advised home quarantine for 14 days.
After the Central Paramilitary forces that have so far reported over 1,300 positive cases, the infection is now spreading to the Central Police Organisations (CPOs).
Besides the CPOs like NIA and CBI, the Bureau of Police Research and Development, a federal think tank on police reforms, has reported one positive case besides four cases in the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF).
The elite Central paramilitary force National Security Guards has also reported 18 Covid-19 positive cases. All these NSG personnel besides those in the BPR&D and NIA are undergoing treatment at the CAPF Referral Hospital of the ITBP at Greater Noida here.
Beg was presented before a designated court here on Sunday. The court directed immediate hospitalisation of the accused in the ISIS Khorasan terror case.
Besides quarantining the persons in contact with Beg or the officials involved in questioning her, the agency has also closed the Control Room at the NIA headquarters here following the report of infection. Reports of others are also awaited, sources said.
The CAPF Referral Hospital, Greater Noida is currently managing treatment of 23 ITBP, seven BSF and 13 CRPF personnel besides a civilian and seven family members of paramilitary personnel including five of ITBP men and one each of CRPF and SSB personnel.
Presently, there are 26 active Covid19 positive cases in ITBP and 186 others have recovered from the disease.
Beg, (39), a Kashmiri woman was arrested by the Delhi police in early March on suspicion of being associated with Islamic State and organising anti-CAA protests.
The NIA had taken custody of Beg and her husband Jahanzaib Sami (36) on May 29 in connection with its probe into the Islamic State (Khorasan) terror conspiracy case involving Hyderabad-based youth Abdullah Basith.
Before taking the duo’s custody custody, the NIA had got them tested for Covid-19 and they were found negative. However, during interrogation Beg developed symptoms and was tested again along with her husband and Basith. While the two other accused tested negative, Beg contracted the infection. She has. now been shifted to LNJP Hospital here for Covid management.