CHENNAI: The Chennai police have registered two separate cases against three people, who returned from abroad, for flouting home

in force to fight the spread

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The Anna Nagar police booked a man in his 30s, who returned from China recently, under sections 188 (Disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant), 269 (Negligent act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life) and 270 (Malignant act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life) of the IPC read with Section 3 of Epidemics diseases Act and Section 51(b) of Disaster Management Act. He had flouted the quarantine norms and he travelled from Chennai.

The Koyambedu police registered a case against a father and son who returned from Iraq recently. They travelled to their native place without informing the police.

In addition sections mentioned above, the duo has been charged with Section 271 (Whoever knowingly disobeys any rule made and promulgated by the government for putting any vessel into a state of quarantine, or for regulating the intercourse of vessels in a state of quarantine with the shore or with other vessels, or for regulating the intercourse between places where an infectious disease prevails and other places, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine, or with both) of the IPC.