Arbaaz Khan, Sohail and son booked for violating COVID-19 norm
(Sourced from PTI)
Actors Arbaaz Khan and Sohail Khan, and the latter's son Nirvaan Khan, were booked by the Mumbai Police for allegedly violating the COVID-19 institutional quarantine norms, civic and police officials said. Dr. Sanjay Funde, a medical officer of H/West ward, told Khar Police that he received information on Monday that the trio had returned from Dubai but didn't go for institutional quarantine.
Dr. Funde and Bandra Police officials then reached Sohail's residence on Nargis Dutt Road in Bandra. A case was registered against them under Section 188 (Disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) and 269 (Negligent act likely to spread infection of disease) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and under provisions of the Epidemic Diseases Act, a Khar Police station official said.
A civic official said, "The Khan trio was asked to stay at a hotel in suburban Bandra after they returned to Mumbai from the UAE in the penultimate week of December last year as per guidelines, but they went to their homes instead."
Sohail told the police officials that he and Arbaaz had returned from Dubai on December 25, while Nirvaan Khan flew back on December 30. He told Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation officials that they booked rooms in a five-star hotel in Bandra for quarantine stay, but decided to go home after their tests at the Mumbai airport confirmed that they were not infected with the coronavirus.
As per the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) of the BMC, passengers returning from countries in Europe and the Middle East must stay in institutional quarantine for seven days in view of the detection of the new strain of coronavirus in the UK.
