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MUMBAI: Police have booked four travellers from Dubai after they slipped out of institutional quarantine within a day of checking in. The police are now looking for the quartet.
The travellers had landed at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport on February 10. They checked into Golden Nest Hotel at Andheri east, which is a designated quarantine hotel for international travellers. But when a BMC doctor went to check on them the next day, the four had disappeared. The doctor then complained to the civic officer and, on Friday, a complaint was lodged at Andheri police station. Those booked include Sushil Sabnis from Ambernath, Zubair Mohammad Ghalte from Murud in Raigad, Nikita Chandar from Ulhasnagar and Swapan Chandradas from Kalyan.
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Andheri: Four booked for fleeing quarantine centre
ByVallabh OzarkarVallabh Ozarkar / Updated: Feb 21, 2021, 08:17 IST
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Four people, including a woman, who arrived from Dubai have been booked by the Andheri police for allegedly fleeing the institutional
quarantine centre earlier this month.
According to the police, the four had arrived from Dubai on February 10, and as per the government’s guidelines those coming from Europe or the Middle East and testing negative for Covid-19 had to undergo a mandatory seven-day institutional quarantine at a hotel followed by a seven-day quarantine at their home.
The accused, Sushil Sabnis, Zuber Ghalte, Nikita Chander and Swapan Chandradas, were dropped at a hotel in Andheri for the quarantine.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], February 21 (ANI): The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Sunday filed a police complaint against four Dubai returnees who violated the government's guidelines and returned to their homes without completing the seven-day quarantine mandatory for international travelers.
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