Muzaffarpur: 3 thieves kept in Kajra police lock-up test +ve, create panic

PATNA: There was panic among the police personnel posted at Kajra police station in Muzaffarpur as the three bike thieves with whom they had spent several hours during a raid on Friday tested positive for Covid-19 on Saturday. The thieves were sent to the SKMCH isolation centre at Muzaffarpur in the evening. The policemen posted at Karja police station have been directed to undergo Covid-19 test.
Saraiyya SDPO Rakesh Kumar Sharma on Sunday said two of the thieves hailed from Amaitha and one belonged to Laxmipur village under Saraiyya police station area in Muzaffarpur.
He said a police team had taken them to several places on their confessions, leading to recovery of two stolen bikes. Sharma said one of the bikes was stolen from Karja on April 9.
“The three were kept in the lock-up overnight. Before their scheduled production before court, they were taken for test and all the three were found positive,” he said and added that all police personnel who had come in their contact had been asked to get themselves tested.
Sharma said the entire Karja police station campus was sanitized on Sunday. “Test reports of the police personnel are awaited. They have been asked to remain in isolation as a precautionary measure,” he said.
This is one of the several such incidents in the last one week after a spike in Covid-19 cases in Bihar. A woman constable at Kotwali police station in Patna tested Covid-19 positive three days back after which she was home quarantined.
A youth was found infected when police recovered him with his girlfriend in an elopement case registered with Shastri Nagar police station in Patna five days back. SHO Ramashankar Singh said the youth was sent to NMCH for treatment. The entire police station was sanitised and no police personnel tested positive after that.