Ludhiana: An additional district and sessions judge (AD&SJ) and his junior staff members have been quarantined after report of one of the employees of his court came Covid positive recently.
The order by district and sessions judge on Monday suggested that a judge had given intimation last Saturday that an ahlmad of his court had informed him through email that his sample for Covid-19 was taken and he had tested positive for the disease. The said official had been actively working in his court till December 4 and during this period he came in contact of 10 officials.
The order further said that as per the intimation, the members of judicial staff who had come in his contact included a reader, translator, JW, stenographer, crl ahlmad, additional ahlmad, usher, two orderlies and naib court. The order suggested that as a precautionary measure, the ahlmad is advised to undergo treatment/quarantine himself as per standard operating procedure and advice of medical authorities and shall take necessary precautions. The order indicated that the presiding office (AD&SJ) and officials of the court concerned who have come in contact with the ahlmad were also advised to go for home quarantine themselves as per the standard operating procedure.