Over 300 passengers, who had arrived at Assam s Silchar airport, escaped the mandatory testing for Covid-19, officials said on Thursday. Southern Assam s Cachar district Additional Deputy Commissioner Sumit Sattawan said that they are collecting details of all the air travellers and then legal action would be taken against them. Action would be taken against the evading air passengers under section 188 of the Indian Penal Code (disobedience to order), Sattawan told the media. The Cachar district administration has launched an investigation into the matter. Airport and health department sources said that of the 690 passengers, who had arrived from six different flights at the Silchar airport on Wednesday, only 189 passengers underwent the Covid tests and six were found to be positive, while little over 200 passengers need not be tested due to various reasons and government s Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).