nThe administration in Chhattisgarh's Mahasmund district has registered a First Information Report (FIR) against eight people in four cases for unauthorized entry in quarantine centres, leaving them and violating quarantine rules.
Saraipali Sub-Divison's Sub Divisional Magistrate Kunal Dudawat said the first case is from Santpali village in Basna block where a man who returned from Mumbai on May 15 jumped the boundary wall of his quarantine centre to consume liquor with a friend.
In village panchayat Bhukel, a young man housed in a Government Primary School Quarantine Centre had an illegal meeting with his father and another relative. On May 31, the son tested positive for Covid-19.
In Jalkot village panchayat, a person who had returned from another state and was in an Anganbadi quarantine centre called two friends. Both entered the premises illegally. A few days later, on May 31, the migrant was found Covid-19 positive.
Similarly, under ward 15 of Bagbahara Municipal Council limits, a person had been entering the quarantine centre illegally to meet the migrant workers housed there.
All have been booked under sections 188 (Disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant), 269 (Negligent act likely to spread infection of diseases dangerous to life) and 270 (Malignant act likely to spread infection of diseases dangerous to life) and section 3 in The Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 (Ordinance 2020).