Man in police custody tests positive in Panchkula, 3 officers quarantined
(WorldNews India)

ONE MAN in police custody in Panchkula tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday, following which at least three police officers who had come in direct contact of the man, have been sampled and put under institutional quarantine. The man, a 39-year-old resident of Aashiyana phase I in Abheypur village, had been arrested by the Sector 19 police post after his wife and daughter had made a call to the police control room, alleging that he beat them. An FIR under Section 107 of the IPC was also registered. The man was picked up by a PCR and brought to the police post, but the riders of the PCR have not been quarantined. The man was sampled, “as is protocol for each man brought into custody,” said...