FIR ordered against two COVID positives for misleading information

Port Blair, April 01: The Deputy Commissioner, South Andaman District has ordered to register FIR against Shri Farzand Ali, R/o Dugnabad and Shri S. Rehman, R/o Round Basthi who have been recently tested positive for COVID -19 for continuously misleading the contact tracing in tracing their contacts and giving wrong information of the places they had visited during the home quarantine period apart from violating the terms and conditions of Home Quarantine.

Any delay in tracing of contacts may lead to the spread of the COVID-19 in the Islands and  in view of this, the above mentioned persons are liable to be prosecuted U/s 269, 271 and 188 of the IPC and Section 51 of the Disaster Management Act, 2005, press release said.