UP police asks quarantined home guard to join duty

Despite, the health department's direction to a home guard family, the UP police has directed its staff to join the department as earliest as possible. The home guard who has been posted in UP's Sultanpur area, went to New Delhi with his family last month and After returning from the national capital, the health department of the state has directed his family to stay in home-quarantine.

Sultanpur:Even as the lockdown rules have become more stringent to curb the novel coronavirus pandemic across the country, the Uttar Pradesh administration is setting another example by violating the home-quarantine guidelines within its own department.

Ayodhya Prasad, who has been posted as homeguard near Sultanpur, went to New Delhi with his family last month.

After returning from the national capital, the health department of the state has directed his family to stay in home-quarantine. Also, the department has patched a poster outside his house, saying the family under home-quarantine.

A poster pasted outside the home of Ayodhya Prasad

Despite, the health department's direction to the family, the UP police has directed the home guard to join the department as earliest as possible.

However, a sanitation worker who used to clean the Punjabi colony area, where the family has been kept under home quarantine, informed the concerned department observing the poster outside the home guard's house.

Reacting on the tip-off, the health department informed the administration about the negligence of the guidelines in their own department.

Taking cognizance of the matter, the administration has kept the family members under home-quarantine.

However, when ETV Bharat asked the officials about the violation of the rules, the administration refused to take questions from the media.

Meanwhile, the state has registered 305 cases of the novel coronavirus, including 27 in the last 24 hours. Out of the total, 159 cases are linked with Tablighi Jamaat event in Nizammudin in south Delhi.