Chattisgarh: Sixty police personnel quarantined after rape accused tests positive

As many as 60 police personnel from Civil Lines police station in Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur were placed under quarantine, after a rape accused they brought from Karnataka on July 4 tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday. As per reports, the police station has been sealed and declared a containment zone, while swab samples of all the personnel have been sent for testing.

Bilaspur: Sixty policemen were quarantined in Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh after a rape accused they brought from Karnataka was detected with COVID-19 on Monday, an official said.

The Civil Lines police station has been sealed and declared a containment zone, while swab samples of all the personnel have been sent for testing, Bilaspur Superintendent of Police Prashant Agrawal said.

"A 28-year-old man was arrested from Mysore by a team of four policemen from Civil Lines police station after a woman filed a complaint of sexual assault last month. The accused, who claims to work at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre's Mysore unit, was brought here on July 4," he said.