Manipur: 2 youths escape quarantine to meet girlfriends, return with liquor

The two youth, who were quarantined in Manipur Tamenglong, escaped the facility to meet their girlfriends. but when they returned, they brought with them alcohol, cigarettes and ganja.

The duo sold the liquor, cigarettes and ganja to other inmates at the quarantine centre. It was only after an official at the quarantine facility caught them distributing the alcohol and cigarettes, the story of their escape-and-return was known.

The Deputy commissioner posted on Facebook, “I and my team here in the district are truly clueless on how to deal with both these rotten returnees and those local thugs supporting them,” Tamenglong Deputy Commissioner Armstrong Pame expressed his helplessness as he posted on Facebook.

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He further stated, that “8 litres of locally made liquor brought to one quarantine centre as ordered by some of the inmates and 4 packages of ganja and cigarettes being demanded. It was caught while being delivered".

“How do we punish them, we are running out of the option to punish them as jails are closed and no one wants to beat them up for fear of human rights violation. Even if we impose fines you can easily pay it because you will recover by selling your supply at higher rates. We can’t quarantine you in Manipur because we can’t feed you” he further said in the post.

Terming these unruly youth as ‘rotten apples’, the DC said that when everyone – villagers, church and volunteers are coming forward to help the quarantine centre in the fight against Covid19, these ‘black sheep’ have frustrated all and brought a bad name to all those in the quarantine centre Manipur.

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