Kolkata: An altercation broke out at Kolkata airport between the government officials and Indian nationals repatriated from Bangladesh after the authorities demanded returnees to stay under 14 day quarantine at hotels, a source said on Wednesday.
The repatriation flight from Bangladesh to Kolkata carrying 269 people arrived at Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport on Wednesday morning. According to the reports, authorities pressurised returnees to go under quarantine while they demanded help in returning back to their respective districts. Sources said, most of them didn't have money to go under hotel-quarantine.
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"I was working in Bangladesh but unfortunately I lost my job due to coronavirus. While bringing us back to our nation we were told that government will provide us all the facilities. But after getting back we haven't received anything. Authorities are asking us to go under quarantine but how is that possible, we don't have money. We can't stay at the hotels hence we demanded the state government to allow us go back home, there we can stay under home quarantine for as long as the government demands," an Indian national from Bangladesh added.
Indians stranded in various countries due to COVID-19-driven restrictions are being brought back in special flights under the Union government's 'Vande Bharat' mission.
