Two parole returnees in Rajkot jail test Covid positive

Rajkot: Two convicts who had gone on parole returned with coronavirus infection to Rajkot Central Jail on Sunday.
With this, Rajkot Central Jail recorded its first Covid-19 case.
According to the jail authorities, two convicts — Vinod Lakshman (44) and Rajkumar Govind (35) — had gone to their residences in Bhavnagar after obtaining parole from a high committee formed by the state government.
In the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak, the government had constituted a high committee which decided to grant parole to the prisoners in different jails across the state whose conduct had been found good.
In Rajkot Central Jail, Vinod and Rajkumar were granted parole along with more than 100 prisoners.
“After the prisoners returned to the jail, we put them to Covid-19 test in which Vinod Lakshman and Rajkumar Govind tested Covid-19 positive,” said an official from the health department of Rajkot Municipal Corporation.
Meanwhile, the jail authorities have kept the two convicts at the government’s quarantine facility at Mangal Pandey School.