Chennai: During times of a natural calamity, like a cyclone or a flood, if your man comes to meet you, fighting all odds, they would say, “marry him”.
But, this is not the case during coronavirus, where social distancing is vital. The police have filed a case against a man who escaped from quarantine in a hospital to meet his girlfriend. He was found in her house and now the girl’s family too has been placed under quarantine.
The youth had come from Dubai and reached Mumbai on 21 March. A native of Keezhapoondudi, Sivagangai, he was quarantined in Avinayapuram in Madurai. However, he ‘escaped’ to Keezhapoondudi to meet his lover at her house, sources said.
Initially, a man missing complaint was filed and police began searching for him, until they got information that he slipped out to meet his girlfriend.Subsequently, he was brought back to the observation ward in a hospital.
Health officials have put the girl’s family under home quarantine.