Varanasi: FIRs against 34 who returned from abroad for ignoring directive

TNN | Updated: Apr 4, 2020, 12:16 IST

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VARANASI: As many as 34 out of 40 foreign returned people were booked under section 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) of IPC for not turning up for Covid-19 screening at DDU Hospital despite repeated warnings.
District magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma said that those who had returned from foreign trips after March 10 were appealed to get screened at the DDU district hospital by March 31.
Out of 191 such persons 40 including six children did not turn up to the hospital till Thursday evening.
FIRs were lodged against 34 persons at 13 police stations including Bhelupur (6), Lanka (5), Dashashwamedh (4), Ramnagar (4), Cantt (2), Chetganj (2) Mirzamurad (2), Chaubeypur (2), Shivpur (2), Jaitpura (1), Cholapur (1), Sarnath (1), and Sigra (1) for ignoring the directive and putting the lives of others in danger. The police teams would be sent to houses of these people to bring them to the hospitals for health screening.
The administration has been asking the people who returned from abroad to reach hospitals for screening.