Sixty policemen were quarantined in Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh after a man accused of rape some of them had brought from Karnataka was detected with Covid positive on Monday, an official said.
The Civil Lines police station has been sealed and declared a containment zone while swab samples of all the personnel have been sent for testing, Bilaspur Superintendent of Police Prashant Agrawal said.
"A 28-year-old man was arrested from Mysore by four policemen from the Civil Lines police station after a woman filed a complaint of sexual assault last month. The accused, who claims to work at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre's Mysore unit, was brought here on July 4," Agrawal said.
He was sent in judicial remand and jail authorities have been alerted after his medical reports returned positive, the officer added.