QC escapee held after dramatic chase
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 16 2020:
A man who ran away from a community quarantine centre has been tested negative for COVID-19 after he was rounded up by personnel of Singjamei police station and local volunteers.
Sources informed that one inmate of a community quarantine centre opened at Thongju Konok Khongnangkhong, Imphal East ran away from the centre at around 8.30 am today without approval of the authority concerned.
Even as police personnel and volunteers who were deputed at the quarantine centre chased the 44 year old man, he turned back and pelted stones at his pursuers, said the sources.
As such, the police personnel and the volunteers were unable to nab or overpower the man.
Later, at around 10.30 am, a police team wearing PPE got hold of the wayward inmate near Hicham Yaicham Pat, Yaiskul.
In the meantime, a medical team arrived at the scene and they took the man for COVID-19 test in an ambulance.
The wayward inmate hails from Bashikhong Loumanbi and he was found negative for COVID-19 after testing, said the sources and added that he returned some days back.