Karnataka ADGP goes on home quarantine as PA tests COVID-19 positive

Bengaluru: A top police official in Karnataka has been home quarantined after his personal assistant was tested positive for coronavirus.

Many policemen and their family members in the city have been put under quarantine in the recent past after their colleagues contracted the virus.

Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Amar Kumar Pandey said: “Yes, my Personal Assistant has tested positive. I am home quarantined.”

Pandey had played a crucial role in the extradition of gangster Ravi Pujari from Senegal to Bengaluru.

A total of 56 personnel in the Karnataka State Reserve Police have been tested positive for the virus till now, said a top police officer.