Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Mar 20: A lady railway officer has been accused of exposing many department officials and the general public to the risk of contracting coronavirus infection by getting her sick son to stay in the railway guesthouse without informing the others that he had come from a foreign land.

The officer's 25-year-old son had come to the city from Germany via Spain. He reached the city on March 13, and on March 17, it was confirmed that he was infected with the coronavirus. Instead of quarantining him in her house at Katriguppe, the lady officer got him to stay at the railway officers guest house located within the railway station building in the city next to the reservation counter.

After the son was diagnosed with coronavirus infection, the lady officer stopped attending office.

The Maple Guest House where the youngster stayed has 17 rooms. He was provided with a room on the second floor. 40 persons had stayed in this guest house between March 13 and 17. After the fact that a coronavirus affected person was staying here came to be known, the guest house has been closed.

A railway official said that the woman officer concerned was driven by the sole purpose of keeping her family safe and for this purpose, she exposed the health of the officials and the general public to peril, which is bad behaviour.