Yamnunagar jail head warder booked for breaching quarantine orders

Shiv Kumar Sharma
Tribune News Service
Yamunanagar, April 12

Haryana Police booked a jail warder for having breached quarantine protocol and reporting to work despite orders to stay at home, officials said on Sunday.

Yamunanagar’s head warder was put under home quarantine was reportedly put under a month-long home quarantine at his house in Ambala Cantonment on March 19 after his sister and brother-in-law visited him from West Bengal.

However, he continued to report to work despite the order and told no one about it, officials said, adding that by doing so, he put the lives of the jail staff as well as prisoners at risk.

He also took a few days off work in the last week of March, sources said.

None of his relatives have so far tested positive, sources said.

After he came to know about the official’s breach of home quarantine, District Jail Superintendent Ratan Singh had the official booked for disobeying orders by a public servant (Section 188) and doing an act that is like to spread a dangerous infection (Section 269) on April 10, officials said.

“When we came to know that a head warder continued his duty despite being quarantined to him, we immediately got the whole jail sanitised,” District Jail Superintendent Ratan Singh said, adding that the head warder had been made to take a compulsory leave of absence.