5 policemen home-quarantined after 5 arrested accused test positive for Covid-19

Five personnel of Kherwadi police station have been home-quarantined after five of the six persons they arrested for rioting and assault on July 13, tested positive

Five personnel of Kherwadi police station have been home-quarantined after five of the six persons they arrested for rioting and assault on July 13, tested positive for Covid-19. Kherwadi police had arrested the six for assaulting three men at Sant Gyaneshwar Nagar in Bandra (East).

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As per protocol, the accused were tested after being arrested. “Five of them tested positive for the virus. And as a precautionary measure, we have asked our men to home quarantine,” said deputy commissioner of police Zone -8, Manjunath Singe.

Dnyaneshwar Khollam, senior inspector of Kherwadi police station, said, “Once we received the test results of the accused, we immediately shifted them to a Covid care centre (CCC) at Vakola.”

According to police, the incident of rioting occurred on July 13, around 2pm, when eight people attacked 29-year-old Gyaneshwar Upadhyay. Upadhyay was standing with his two friends when the accused, equipped with swords, knives, choppers, and blades, attacked them due to a fall out because of an old enmity between two groups. Locals who witnessed the attack informed the police.

Six of the accused were arrested after a first information report (FIR) was registered against eight accused under multiple sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Arms Act, and Maharashtra Police Act.