One of the four miscreants who pelted stones and slapped with National Security Act (NSA) for attacking two women doctors in the city recently and were lodged in Jabalpur jail, has tested positive for covid19 on Saturday.
Javed Khan was among persons who had attacked two woman doctors on duty in Taatpatti Bakhal area of Indore recently. After the administration slapped him with NSA along with three others, Khan was sent to Jabalpur jail with his associates.
A test report received by jail administration in Jabalpur on Saturday which confirmed that Javed Khan has contracted corona infection. Panicked jail officers immediately shifted the ailing inmate to an isolation ward in the hospital within the jail campus.
After one of the four accused reached Jabalpur, one of them had fallen ill and all the four were shifted to jail hospital and samples were collected from them for tests. The rest of the three tested negative and have been shifted to their barracks. The policemen who had brought the four accused to Jabalpur jail from Indore too have been asked to shift to quarantine as a precautionary measure.
The jail authorities in Jabalpur are also planning to test those inmates who were present in the barrack with the one who tested positive.
With the prisoner testing positive, total number of corona positive cases in Jabalpur has reached ten. Five of these patients have been discharged after recovering completely.
The Taatpatti Bakhal area of Indore where the stone-pelting had taken place has remained a covid19 hotspot with locals reporting positive for the virus in herds in the last few days.