Ex-Mumbai duo try to evade quarantine, nabbed by cops
BENGALURU:
Two passengers on the ex-Mumbai Udyan Express tried to slip away after alighting at the Bengaluru city railway station on Tuesday, but were nabbed by the police and sent to institutional quarantine.
The police on duty were alerted by a message from city police commissioner Bhaskar Rao, and chased and nabbed the duo who tried to escape in an autorickshaw (KA 02 9780).
After the lockdown, this is the first time that the popular Udyan Express arrived in Bengaluru with around 1,734 passengers.
From Mumbai, the Udyan Express reaches Bengaluru via Yadgir and Kalaburagi. Senior police officials have pulled up the cops on duty at the city railway station for assuming that most of the passengers were from within the state and being lax in checking passengers.
In another incident, one of the passengers created a ruckus, saying he had no money even for the bus fare, and asked to be sent back to Mumbai.
Following an incident on Tuesday where a duo from Mumbai tried to slip away at the Bengaluru city railway station, police chief Bhaskar Rao has warned that criminal cases will be filed if inbound passengers, especially from Mumbai, try to evade quarantine.
Speaking to the media, Rao said the police would take the details of quarantine evaders from the railways, locate them and send them into quarantine. He urged travellers who have not submitted to quarantine yet to contact BBMP and Health Department officials, or else they would face a criminal case.
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