Seven of family booked for violating lockdown rules in Karnataka

Mangluru, Apr 11 () Seven members of a family, havebeen booked for violating the lockdown rules by enteringDakshina Kannada district by sea from Talapady in Kasaragoddistrict of neighbouring Kerala.

The case was registered against Yakoob, a resident ofAddur in Bajpe police station limits and his family members.

They had gone to a relatives house in Talapady on theKasaragod side where they got stuck after the lockdown wasclamped.

As the district administration has sealed all borderpoints, Yakoob hired a boat with help of one Shakir who sailedthem to Talapady side of Dakshina Kannada, from where theyreached Addur, police sources said.

Local people who saw them at a ration shop, broughtthe matter to the notice of the police, who took them intocustody.

They have been sent for medical tests and quarantinedat the Wenlock hospital, the sources said. MVG SSROH ROH