Ranchi Police on Monday lodged FIR against 10 named persons and more than 30 unnamed persons for violation of lockdown and section 144 imposed by the Government, under Gonda Police Station in the State Capital as a large numbers of residents of Central Coalfields Limited's (CCL), Gandhinagar Colony gathered in front of CCL's Gandhinagar Hospital situated at Gandhinagar to protest against making the hospital COVID-19 hospital.
This is the case of State Capital's Kanke Road area where CCL's Gandhinagar Hospital situated. It may be mentioned here that CCL CMD, Gopal Singh announced more than one months earlier that an isolation ward will be built by the company at the hospital to provide treatment for the Corona virus infected patients.
Gonda Police Station In Charge, Awdhesh Thakur informed that a total of 10 persons have been made named accused in the FIR lodged at the Police Station and more than 30 persons unnamed for breaking lockdown as Section 144 imposed in the State amidst fear of COVID 19 outbreak.
As the Corona virus posetive cases are increasing in the State and the Capital, residents of the Colony fear that if the infected patients will be admitted in the hospital then there are chances that residents would also infected by the virus. A large numbers of women also accompanied the male protesters.
All the people gathered there were only demanding transfer of isolation ward from the Colony to another place as the Colony is residential area and Coronavirus positive patients should not be treated like places in residential areas.
A woman protesting at the spot said, "We have small children and we know that the virus is infectious so that we are fearing about our family. We are demanding that the company should transfer the isolation ward at another place as the Colony is densely populated."
CCL Security Manager, Vikrant Malhan informed that the Company is fully prepared to provide treatment to COVID 19 positive patients and according to the Company's instruction the security department is completed its preparation to provide security cover to the health workers of the Hospital. On the question of FIR lodged against the residents he said, "
They are like our family members and we have convinced them that the company would not take any step which could harm them." Malahan said that the Police Administration could file FIR against them on the basis of violation of lockdown.