Dabhoi cops return to duty amid rousing welcome

TNN | May 2, 2020, 04:56 IST

Vadodara: Around two dozen cops from Dabhoi police station who were put under home quarantined after a head constable tested positive for coronavirus were felicitated by the residents of town on Thursday after they resumed their duties.
Some 26 policemen of a police station, including an inspector, had to undergo quarantine after its head constable Rajendrasinh Zala had tested positive. All of them were in contact with Zala and so had to stay in the mandatory quarantine period.
Zala had contracted the virus from the paan masala thief, Ayub Tai, whom he had arrested for looting a grocery shop owner of his tobacco stock. Zala was discharged on April 27 and Tai the next day.
However, as the other police staff had two more days of their two-week quarantine period to end, they remained away from the police station. The police station’s charge was handed over to a sub-inspector from parole furlough squad of Vadodara rural police.
On Thursday morning when they all reached the police station, some residents of Dabhoi town felicitated and welcomed by showering flowers on them.
“It was a small gesture where we wanted to thank them for their work they have been doing at the risk of their lives and also conveyed our wishes so that they continue their duty in lockdown without getting affected,” said a resident.