Police have registered an FIR against a 47-year-old man for concealing his foreign travel history, police said here on Saturday.
“The man—a priest—had returned from Germany which is coronavirus-hit and was secretly residing at a church in Jorajam village in Jashpur district,” station house officer (SHO) Bagicha Saklu Ram Bhagat said.
The priest was booked after it was known that he had evaded the returning from Germany last month, Bhagat said.
On March 19, the Jashpur district administration had advised people with history of travel abroad to remain under mandatory quarantine due to possible exposure to coronavirus, irrespective of whether they show any symptoms of the infection, the SHO said.
The man has been admitted in a quarantine centre and an FIR was registered against him after getting a complaint from the office of Tahsildar, police said.
He has been booked under Section 269 IPC (unlawfully or negligently doing something which is likely to spread infection of any dangerous disease to life), Section 270 IPC (malignant act likely to spread infection of dangerous disease to life), Section 271 IPC (knowingly disobeying any quarantine rule) and Section 188 of IPC (for disobeying any government order) and Section 3 of the Epidemic Diseases Act, the SHO said.