Strict Action Demanded by Kumar Sanjay Krishna against home quarantine violators

Our Correspondent

TINSUKIA: Though the State Chief Secretary Kumar Sanjay Krishna in clear terms announced that people who had stamps on their hands should be home quarantined and any violation would invite stringent action under Disaster Management Act, a case in Tinsukia involving a pharmacy owner has raised eyebrows. The police are allegedly dilly-dallying taking action against the violator in absence of ‘any complaint’ even as the violator himself confessed before the police about his social mixing in terms of customer dealing.

According to reports, Rakesh Agarwalla, proprietor of Aran Medicos on AT Road, Tinsukia returned to Tinsukia from Rajasthan on March 23 and was stamped on the hand for strict home quarantine. He was spotted by a journalist inside the pharmacy while dealing with several customers. The police, after being informed, went to the spot and found the shutter down even as customers were inside. Agarwal was later let off with a ‘warning’ and asked to stay home till completion of quarantine period!

Police, however, told this correspondent that they were contemplating some legal action against the trader. As the pharmacy is located in the busy AT Road with close proximity to the biggest retail pharmacy in the district, it is unclear as to how many people had hopped from one medicine shop to another when lockdown was in progress. The conscious people opined that Rakesh Agarwalla, who abetted irreparable damage to the society, including his own family members, in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic, should be booked and sent to institutional quarantine setting an example for all violators in the district.

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