125 booked, 10 arrested for attack on medical team, cops in Kanpur

TNN | Updated: May 1, 2020, 11:03 IST

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KANPUR: Police on Friday booked 125 people and held nearly 10 for attacking a medical and police teams in Jugiyana locality of Bajaria area of the city on Wednesday.
To recall, the incident had occurred after a medical and police team had gone to Jugiyana locality of Bajaria on Wednesday to take nine members of a family, who were in contact with a coronavirus victim, to a quarantine centre for isolation.
Their neighbours offered resistance and hurled stones at the medical and police team. Giving more information on it, SSP/DIG Anant Deo said, “People should understand that we are putting each and every effort of ours to keep them safe from coronavirus. Yesterday, when our medical and police team tried to escort nine members of a family, who were in contact with a corona afflicted person in Jugiyana locality, they started pelting stones”.
Following this, 125 unidentified persons have been booked and 10 others taken into custody, the SSP said “Based on CCTV video footage, police have identified 25 of the total 125 people. After investigations, they will be booked under various sections of IPC and the NSA will also be invoked against them”, he added.