Police Detain 59 For Violence Over Quarantine Round-up

Health officials in Bengaluru had gone to quarantine contacts of a patient

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The J.J. Nagar police have registered five FIRs and arrested 59 people for allegedly instigating residents and attacking the police when they arrived on Sunday night along with BBMP officials to take secondary contacts of a deceased COVID-19 patient into quarantine. BBMP commissioner B. H. Anil Kumar said the violence had erupted almost an hour after civic officials had left the ward, adding that none of the BBMP’s personnel had been injured.

As many as 500 police personnel have been deployed in the ward, which had been sealed and barricaded on April 10 along with a neighbouring ward after a spurt in the number of positive cases.