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Home / News / Delhi News / Forced into quarantine despite being COVID-19 negative: Family tells HC
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    Forced into quarantine despite being COVID-19 negative: Family tells HC

    Srijita Sen <br/><i>(Sourced from PTI)</i>
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    Last updated on Feb 23, 2021, 06:17 pm
    Forced into quarantine despite being COVID-19 negative: Family tells HC
  • A family of four including two minor children, which has been sent to 7-day institutional quarantine after returning from the UK, told the Delhi High Court on Tuesday that the action amounted to "illegal confinement" as they had tested negative for COVID-19.

    The family is quarantined at Hotel Vivanta in Dwarka, New Delhi.

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    Notices issued to Civil Aviation, External Affairs ministers, Delhi Government Guidelines on Delhi Airport website were cited Family sent to a five-star hotel at their own expense Family wants compensation and release from confinement
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    Notices issued to Civil Aviation, External Affairs ministers, Delhi Government

    Notices issued to Civil Aviation, External Affairs ministers, Delhi Government
  • Justice Prathiba M Singh issued notice to the Civil Aviation and External Affairs ministers and the Delhi Government seeking their stand on the family's plea.

    Advocate Ganesh Chand Sharma, appearing for the family, told the court that they were tested for COVID-19 when they arrived from the UK on February 20 and despite testing negative they were "illegally and unlawfully" sent to institutional quarantine.

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    Guidelines on Delhi Airport website were cited

  • Sharma said the action was illegal as according to the guidelines published on the Delhi Airport website, institutional quarantine was not mandatory for all the passengers arriving from the UK and was applicable only to those who tested positive for COVID-19.

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    Family sent to a five-star hotel at their own expense

  • The petition said that before starting from the UK, the family had undergone a COVID-19 test and they were issued a "fit-to-fly" certificate.

    After arriving at Delhi, they were again tested and were found negative for COVID-19, despite which they were sent to institutional quarantine at their cost in a premium lounge of IGI Airport instead of home quarantine as sought by the petitioners.

  • The plea

    Family wants compensation and release from confinement

  • The plea has sought that the petitioners be released from their alleged "illegal confinement" and the cost of their "forced" stay at Rs. 2,600 per person at the hotel be borne by the Centre and Delhi Government.

    The petitioners have also sought compensation from the two governments "for the pain and agony suffered due to the wrongful act and conduct" of the authorities.

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