Deoria hospital quarantine centre head beaten, 2 held

Gorakhpur: The in-charge of the quarantine centre of Deoria district hospital was beaten and threatened to vacate the rented house in Kotwali area by his landlord, ward corporator’s husband and others who fear spread of Covid-19 due to his presence in the area.
“On the written complaint of the quarantine centre in charge Dr Rajiv Ranjan, his landlord Dilip Paswan and ward corporator’s husband Nanhe Nishad were arrested.Case was registered against three more people,” informed Deoria SP Sri Pati Mishra.
As per reports, on Tuesday evening Paswan and Nishad, along with three others, asked Dr Ranjan to vacate the house because they feared the spread of coronavirus in the area due to his presence. When the doctor refused to do so, they started beating him. .
The case was egistered against the five accused under Sections 323(punishment for voluntarily causing hurt) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), 506 (criminal Intimidation), 333(voluntarily causing grievous hurt to deter public servant from his duty), 353 (Assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant), 269(negligent act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life), 270 (malignant act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life) of IPC, 51B of Disaster Management Act and Epidemic Act.