The officer had earlier caught a NSA detainee, aCOVID-19 patient, in neighbouring Narsinghpur district when heescaped from hospital.
The IPS official himself was found to have contractedvirus on Friday, said District Chief Medical and HealthOfficer M K Mishra.
A 25 year-old man and his 58-year-old father werebooked under the National Security Act (NSA) after theyallegedly hurled stones at a policeman in Chandan Nagarlocality in Indore on April 7.
The young man escaped two weeks ago from JabalpurMedical Hospital. The trainee IPS officer had gone tocatch him.
The NSA detainee's 58-old father who had beenimprisoned at Indore Central Jail tested positive on April 14.
He is being treated in Indore. Indore Central Jailauthorities suspect that because of him a warder and six otherprisoners caught infection. COR LAL MASKRK KRK