Three booked for entering Dang from Maha

TNN | May 4, 2020, 04:00 IST

Surat: Saputara police in Dang booked three more people for allegedly entering the district via the forest route on foot.
Thsoe booked including a man and his wife who had reached Surgana village at Maharashtra-Gujarat border by temple and were then going on foot through forest area.
The couple Ratan Pawar and his wife Manu told police that they had gone to Maharashtra’s Kolvadi village to work as farm labourers few weeks ago. But as there was no work due to lockdown, the decided to return home. They are natives of Darpada village of Waghai taluka.
In another case, the police booked 35-year-old Shivabhai, a resident of Galkund village of Ahwa taluka, for entering Dang. He too was a farm labourer and returned as there was no work
Three Covid-19 positive cases have been reported from Dang district so far, all being nurses who returned from Surat.