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Mumbai: Court gives cops law lesson, dismisses 5 lockdown cases | Mumbai News

Representative image MUMBAI: Dismissing five cases where the police had booked individuals for flouting the lockdown last year, a court has held that charges of spreading infection could not be attracted in the case as the accused had not been tested for Covid-19. “Moreover, there is no documentary evidence for showing that the accused persons had been tested positive for Covid-19. In absence of such material on the record, it can not be said that the accused persons had indulged in any act which was likely to spread infection of Covid-19,” the Vikhroli magistrate court said recently. In each case, the police had submitted a chargesheet invoking Section188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant), Section 269 (negligent act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life) and Section 270 (malignant act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life) of the IPC and provisions of the National Disaster Management Act, alleging that during the

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