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Close on the heels of attack on police and doctors in Moradabad, a team of Auxiliary Nurse Midwife (ANM) was allegedly manhandled by villagers in Bareilly when they went to verify if any outsider had taken shelter there or any coronavirus suspect was staying in the locality.
The ANM team members alleged that the records maintained by them were tampered with and their mobile phones and purses were also snatched by the mob. Later, after intervention of some senior residents, the belongings of the ANMs were returned after which the team left the area and briefed their seniors about the incident.
Medical Superintendent of Faridpur Community Health Centre Dr Wasid Ali said they had reported the matter to the police and were also looking into the facts to take necessary action. So far no arrests was made.
Reports said that about two dozen ANMs attached with Faridpur and Naveen primary health centres in Bareilly visited Mahadev and Unchey Faridpur areas on Friday morning to check whether any outsider had taken shelter in the area and also whether any coronavirus suspect was living there without informing anyone.
The ANMs completed their task in Mahadev but when they started verification in Unchey Faridpur area, members of four to five families suddenly came out and objected. They questioned the purpose of the visit and even after the team members showed them their identity cards and disclosed the purpose of their visit, the miscreants allegedly manhandled the team, tampered with their registers in which records had been maintained and also snatched their mobile phones and purses.
Luckily, some senior residents came to the rescue of the ANM team and helped them get back their belongings.
It may be mentioned that last Wednesday, doctors, paramedics and policemen were injured as a mob attacked them when the corona warriors went to take some coronavirus suspects for isolation. Three vehicles, including an ambulance, were damaged in the mob violence in Gulshaheed police station area of Moradabad.
Meanwhile, one person suspected to have attended Tablighi Jamaat congregation at Nizamuddin markaz in New Delhi, was held in Gorakhpur and put in quarantine.
Reports said that Badruddin, a native of Lalganj area of Badhalganj in Gorakhpur working in Dubai, had returned home on March 22. However, the intelligence wing of the Delhi Police, working to trace out persons who attended the Jamaat event, found the mobile phone of Badruddin active in the Nizamuddin area in the second and third week of March so they passed the information to Gorakhpur police which on Thursday held Badruddin from his house and put him in quarantine in local primary school.
Badruddin told the police that he had returned from Dubai after work stopped there due to coronavirus scare and that he had stayed in Delhi before reaching Gorakhpur.
He denied having any connection with Tablighi Jamaat.