Gangster Bhagwanpuria brought back to Patiala, isolated at Rajindra hospital
PATIALA : A day after gangster Jaggu Bhagwanpuria tested positive for covid-19, he was brought back to Patiala on Wednesday and is now admitted at the prison ward of the Government Rajindra Hospital and Medical College.
Batala police had taken Bhagwanpuria on a production warrant on April 30 for questioning in connection with the murder of a former Akali sarpanch of Dhilwan village in Gurdaspur district. His samples were taken on May 2.
Patiala SSP Mandeep Singh Sidhu said, “He has been kept under tight security at the prison ward of the hospital.”
Patiala civil surgeon Dr Harish Malhotra said samples had been taken of 22 high-risk contacts of the gangster, including some security staff at Patiala
Central Jail.
Jail superintendent Karanjit Singh Sandhu said these contacts had been quarantined and had been shifted to separate cells.
Bhagwanpuria had been shifted to a separate cell on April 21, when a mobile phone was recovered on him.
In Batala, those police officials who had quarantined him during remand have been asked to home quarantine for 14 days.