Ahmedabad: Three booked for quarantine breach

AHMEDABAD: Three persons including a woman were hospital quarantined and booked under section 270 and 188 of Indian Penal Code and the Epidemic Disease Act -1897 for moving out of their houses after they were placed under home quarantine for 14 days.
Out of the three accused, the 54-year-old man runs a security agency and lives in Thaltej, while the other two include a 57-year-old man and his 56-year-old wife in Vejalpur who have recently returned from Saudi Arabia.
According to an FIR lodged by the officials of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), the 54-year-old man and his 24-year-old son had returned from Switzerland on March 17. They were screened at the airport and home quarantined for 14 days at their residence in Thaltej.
However, the 54-year-old man was found loitering around near the gate of the society often. Some of the society members informed the AMC authorities on Friday, following which a team of health department and Vastrapur police station reached his house.
“We have booked him and handed him over to the health department,” said a Vastrapur police official.
In the second incident, the 57-year-old man and his wife, home quarantined after their return from Saudi Arabia, were booked and handed over to the health department of the AMC after they were not found at home.