Missing contact of +ve case traced to PU campus, booked

Chandigarh, April 27

A missing contact of a Bapu Dham Colony Covid-19 patient was today traced by the police to Panjab University (PU) and a case was registered against him at the Sector 26 police station as he joined duty at the PU and did not disclose that he was a neighbour of the Covid patient.

The suspect, who lives at the colony, works as a multi-tasking staffer at PU Boys’ Hostel No. 1. Since yesterday, he was living in quarters located at the hostel after he was allegedly denied entry to his locality.

The UT Administration had sealed Bapu Dham Colony after Covid cases surfaced there. “After duty, he went back to his residence on Sunday morning. However, he was not allowed to enter the locality as the area was sealed,” claimed PU hostel warden Rajeev Kumar.

“Left with no other option, he returned to the hostel and we accommodated him at one of the quarters. He claimed that he was not in direct contact with the Covid-19 patient," he said. A team of the Sector 26 police station, led by the SHO, Inspector Narinder Patial, was looking for him. After gathering inputs, the SHO reached the PU campus and the missing contact was rounded up.

The police said since he joined duty at the PU and did not disclose that he was a neighhour of the Covid patient, a case under Sections 188, 269 and 270 of the IPC had been registered against him. The police informed a medical team about him. The team was yet to arrive at the police station till the filing of this report. — TNS