Telangana Govt collects passports of foreign returnees To ensure quarantine

[Anta Assamey]

 

In a move to ensure that foreign returnees in the state do not violate their home quarantine period in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, authorities in Telangana are taking away their passports.

This comes after there were complaints of several people disregarding the mandatory 'home quarantine' as per the standard protocol.

In tune with government orders which have enforced a lockdown in the state till April 16 to contain the spread of coronavirus, authorities are using provisions under section 2 of the Epidemic Diseases Act 1897 which empower the state government to take decisions and measures that are deemed necessary to prevent the outbreak of a disease. Citing this, the state government has issued orders empowering Collectors and District Magistrates to collect the passports of foreign returnees.

Revenue Divisional Officers and Executive Magistrates were ordered to oversee the procedure. Several passports have already been collected across the districts of the districts.

An order from Nizamabad District Collector said, "It is felt necessary to take certain steps to ensure that the orders for Home Quarantine are followed scrupulously so as to prevent the further spread of COVID19."

"It is hereby ordered that all such persons (foreign returnees) shall hand over their passports to an officer authorised...and a proper acknowledgment shall be issued by the officer receiving the passport. The passport shall be held in the custody of the undersigned for the balance period of the Home Quarantine imposed," the order adds.

Speaking to TNM, Jagtial District Collector G Ravi Kumar said, "It is a state-wide order given by the government. We have already started collecting the passports from Wednesday. Almost 50% of the collection is done. The remaining will also be collected as concerned officials visit the people in quarantine." According to the Collector, people who came from other states were also being asked to remain in isolation.

According to Rajanna Siricilla District Collector, the officials have collected 703 passports of people who came from different countries.

Collector Krishna Bhaskar told TNM, "They are being collected according to government instructions and an acknowledgement is being given that they will be returned after the quarantine period."

The state government has intensified measures to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 as the number of positive cases has reached 45. Revenue and medical officials are reaching out to people who arrived in villages from neighbouring states and big cities and urging them to be in isolation in view of the situation.

The state government is also filing cases against those who violate the quarantine. Five persons were booked in Hyderabad last week under Sections 269 (Negligent act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life) and 188 (Disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) of the Indian Penal COde (IPC).

In a press note on Friday, the GHMC said that 16 persons who violated their home qurantine period have been shifted to government designated quarantine centers.

[Anta Assamey]

I am hearing this for the first time ....

Maaku telisina vallu okallu Hyderabad lo land ayyinappudu took it...

After 15 days local collectorate nunchi phone vastundi and collect it from there annaru.... and Yes and they did collect it ...

But i do not understand the point behind taking the passport...

[emitlu]

Em geekallo teliyaka eyebrows geekunadanta...Tingari odu..

Ma CM kuda anthe....

[kevinUsa]

9 minutes ago, Anta Assamey said:

I am hearing this for the first time ....

Maaku telisina vallu okallu Hyderabad lo land ayyinappudu took it...

After 15 days local collectorate nunchi phone vastundi and collect it from there annaru.... and Yes and they did collect it ...

But i do not understand the point behind taking the passport...

But I believe courts and ministry of external affairs has right to withhold passports

[Anta Assamey]

1 minute ago, kevinUsa said:

But I believe courts and ministry of external affairs has right to withhold passports

But my question is .... Taking passport and sending home to ensure Quarantine .... What a stupid logic.... 

[Anta Assamey]

@tom bhayya india velle valle evaraina unte vallani choosukomani cheppu ...

[Picheshwar]

❤️ 

[Manikyam]

20 hours ago, kevinUsa said:

But I believe courts and ministry of external affairs has right to withhold passports

how does it help in quarantine is the question

[Manikyam]

20 hours ago, Anta Assamey said:

But my question is .... Taking passport and sending home to ensure Quarantine .... What a stupid logic.... 

yeah tg lo passport lekapote you cant step out anta

[Anta Assamey]

27 minutes ago, Manikyam said:

yeah tg lo passport lekapote you cant step out anta

[Picheshwar]

44 minutes ago, Picheshwar said:

❤️

Da

[Anta Assamey]

52 minutes ago, Manikyam said:

yeah tg lo passport lekapote you cant step out anta

[Spartan]

1 hour ago, Anta Assamey said:

@tom bhayya india velle valle evaraina unte vallani choosukomani cheppu ...

10 days back oka relative went back to india..

local MLA to fon cheyinchi escaped anta..

ala unnaru janalu....no responsibility....

[Anta Assamey]

1 minute ago, Spartan said:

10 days back oka relative went back to india..

local MLA to fon cheyinchi escaped anta..

ala unnaru janalu....no responsibility....

But I dont understand how taking passport can enforce quarantine ...  

Ma friend mom left to Hyderabad and she was sent home but passport unchukunaru .... 

[Spartan]

Just now, Anta Assamey said:

But I dont understand how taking passport an enforce quarantine ...  

contact tracing kosam emo.