A woman police constable of Nagpur police suspected of having contracted COVID-19 was quarantined with a married man whom she was having an affair with, after she lied to the authorities that he was her husband, said an official on Thursday. According to the officials, the woman constable is unmarried and was to be shifted to a quarantine centre after her colleague tested COVID-19 positive.
While shifting to the quarantine centre she told the authorities that her husband should also be quarantined along with her. However, later the authorities got to know that he was her boyfriend working with the postal department.
The couple was quarantined in the Police Training Centre (PTC).
The man's real wife had no inkling about his whereabouts as he had not returned home for three days.
Later somehow his wife got to know about her husband's affair and came to the quarantine centre, but was denied entry by the guards, the official said.
Thereafter, she filed a complaint with Bajaj Nagar police against her husband, and met Commissioner of Police Dr Bhushankumar Upadhyay after which he ordered probe into the matter.
The woman constable and the man had first met during a government project in October 2019 and got into a relationship, as per police sources.
DCP Zone II Vivek Masal, who is conducting the probe, said that the man was later shifted to another quarantine centre.