Daijiworld Media Network - Madikeri (SP)

Madikeri, Apr 22: Ambulances serve the interests of patients in need of urgent healthcare. Therefore, people make an effort to allow free movement of ambulances under all circumstance. But some miscreants misuse this situation and carry passengers amid lockdown conditions in the guise of patients.

Vehicular movement has been banned to curb the coronavirus infection. Still, Asif Basha an ambulance driver from Padarayanapura, Bengaluru had come to pick a youth from Kudige, Kodagu district. He has been arrested by the police.

The son of Venkatesh from Hosur, the youth, had got stuck at the house of a friend in Kudige. To help him escape, ambulance driver Asif had drawn up a plan. He brought the youth along to move a diabetic patient named Arif. This plan worked well. But, at the Koppa checkpost in Kushalnagar, the circle police inspector Mahesh Dev, and team conducted a thorough check which exposed his plan.

It is learnt that Asif and Arif had collected Rs 10,000 to bring the youth from Kodagu. A case against all the three was registered in Kushalnagar police station. All the three have now been kept in the mass quarantine facility at the district hospital in Kodagu.