Woman booked for travelling to Dabhoi

TNN | Apr 13, 2020, 04:00 IST

Ayesha Pathan had gone to Dabhoi to meet her parents

Vadodara: Health officials and police in Dabhoi went into a tizzy on Saturday evening when a woman from Bahucharaji Road in Nagarwada reached Dabhoi town along with her three children. Ayesha Pathan was sent back by police and an offence was registered against her at Dabhoi police station.
Police said Pathan and her three children boarded a mini pickup van used for transporting vegetables. The van driver took internal roads where police presence is negligible to ensure that the woman reached her parents’ home in Jantanagar in Dabhoi town. “We received information that some five people had arrived at Pathan’s father Habib Pathan’s house so our team along with a medical officer and health worker went there to check,” said a police official. “On reaching there, we learned that Pathan had come from the red zone in Vadodara,” the police official added. When interrogated Pathan said that she had come to meet her parents. Dabhoi police then contacted medical officials in Vadodara city to inform that they are sending her back and she be kept under quarantine.
She was booked for violating public notification and committing a negligent and malignant act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life and under Epidemic Diseases Act.
“It is surprising that Pathan’s husband Riyaz Khan is a cop and her father is a retired police constable yet they did not object to her movement during lockdown,” another police official said.