With the crisis at the Telangana-Andhra borders, where hundreds of Andhra people staying in Hyderabad got stranded in the last two days, turning into a major law and order issue, the state high court intervened on Friday to put an end to the chaos.
The high court found fault with chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s statement that nobody would be allowed into the state because of the Coronavirus scare and those who wanted to come into the state would be put in 14-day quarantine.
Acting on a petition filed by Bharatiya Janata Party leader Velagapudi Gopalakrishna, the high court ordered that the AP government should consider the no-objection certificate (NOC) issued by the Telangana government to the hostellers from Andhra.
“The NOCs should be screened at the entry point and if the people are healthy without any symptoms, they should be allowed into the state. If anybody is found to be a suspected case with symptoms, they should be immediately be shifted to quarantine,” the court said.
The court felt that all the people who got stranded at the borders should not be treated as Covid-19 suspects.
“The travellers who are healthy should be allowed on the condition that they remained home quarantined for 14 days and kept under constant surveillance by doctors. But they cannot be denied the entry,” the high court said.
