HYDERABAD: Nizamabad deputy mayor Mohammad Idris Khan of AIMIM was on Thursday booked for obstructing medical staff from doing their duty during lockdown.
The deputy mayor and a corporator’s husband obstructed medical staff at Auto Nagar, a red zone area, while they were trying to move suspected Covid-19 patients to quarantine.
Police booked cases against both of them.
Nizambad has the second highest number of cases (51) in the state after Hyderabad. The Police Department is going tough on everyone who is preventting health staff from attending to their duties or causing any sort of harm to them while on duty.