Byndoor Police Station, CPI office sealed down as two staffers test positive for COVID-19
Byndoor: The Byndoor police station as well as the office of the Circle Inspector on the same premises have been sealed down as two police staff tested positive for the deadly Coronavirus here on Monday.
A female staff member tested positive for the virus on June 21 while another staff tested positive on June 22. Since both the staff members were computer operators, they were assigned indoor work. As a result, the two had visited the office of the circle inspector and the police station.
The offices have temporarily been shifted to the old building of the circle inspector's office.
Also, 30 staff members, including the sub-inspector, and the circle inspector have been put under home quarantine following the development.
The staff in all police stations have been working in three groups with 10 days of external work, 10 days of indoor work, and 10 days of rest in a month each. There are about eight staff members of one such group in the Byndoor police station who would not have come into contact with an infected person in the last 18 days. Two of the staff members are aged above 50 years. The other six people will now work from the temporary office, said Kundapur Assistant Superintendent of Police Hariram Shankar.
The station will be sanitized on Monday night and two to three times on Tuesday and used for work about 48 hours later. All those who had come into contact with the infected staff members will be made to undergo tests for infection, said the officer.
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Bengal: On way to PM's rally, 3 mowed down by train amid dense fog
Kolkata (PTI): Three persons died and three others were injured after being hit by a train amid dense fog on Saturday, while travelling to attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally at Taherpur in West Bengal's Nadia district, a senior official said.
The incident occurred between Taherpur and Badkulla railway stations under the Sealdah-Krishnanagar section of Eastern Railway, he said.
Modi, whose helicopter could not land at Taherpur due to dense fog and low visibility, condoled the death of the “BJP workers” in his virtual address from Kolkata airport.
“I have come to know that some BJP workers, while travelling to the rally, lost their lives in a rail accident. My condolences are with the families of those who have lost their loved ones, and I pray for the speedy recovery of the injured,” Modi said.
The Eastern Railway official told PTI that the incident occurred in the morning when these people, who were travelling by a bus, had stopped the vehicle and walked to the railway tracks to answer nature's call.
"While three persons died on the spot, two others with injuries were admitted to a local hospital," he said.
Another person with minor injuries was released after having been administered first aid, the official said.
The deceased have been identified as Ramprasad Ghosh (74), Shaktipada Sutradhar (55) and Gopinath Das (38).
Meanwhile, Mahua Moitra, Trinamool Congress MP from Krishnanagar constituency in Nadia district, alleged that the BJP ignored the incident and went ahead with the rally.
"Terrible tragedy hushed up at altar of @narendramodi ego. @BJP4India supporters brought from far Murshidabad for PM rally in Ranaghat today," she said in a post on X.
"4 went to answer nature's call and were killed by 31814 down local train near Taherpur. BJP ignored, blacked out & went ahead with rally," Moitra claimed.
Reacting to her remarks, the West Bengal BJP, in a post on X, asserted that the TMC "has always been adept at milking tragedies", and was being "disrespectful to the unfortunate victims of this tragedy".
The TMC alleged that BJP leaders have not shown "neither concern nor compassion" over the mishap.
"The loss of three lives in Taherpur should have united everyone in grief. But @BJP4India leaders showed neither concern nor compassion," it said in another post on X.
"At this painful moment, Smt @MamataOfficial and Shri @abhishekaitc put humanity above party lines and stood beside the families of the deceased," the party said.
TMC’s on-ground leaders promptly reached out to the grieving family members, ensuring them of help and assistance, it said.
"While Delhi’s rulers chase Bengal with arrogance, our leadership chose empathy. This is the difference between politics of power and politics of people!" the TMC added.
