Lucknow: 17-year-old Covid +ve juvenile flees shelter home, untraced

LUCKNOW: A 17-year-old

juvenile

who escaped from

Para road shelter

home on Sunday with an inmate after testing positive for Covid-19 could not be traced.

Police, however, caught the other boy from his home in Chinhat.

Overall six juveniles lodged at Para shelter home had tested positive on July 28.

On Tuesday, the shelter home in-charge, Sanjay Soni told TOI one juvenile was recovered by police from Chinhat and was taken for medical check-up while efforts to nab the other are under way.

“The missing juvenile hails from

Unnao

. Police teams are conducting searches for his recovery,” he said.

Soni said the missing juvenile from Unnao was put in the shelter home in October 2019.

On July 28, random sampling of all the 152 juveniles lodged at the shelter home was done. “Six had tested positive for Covid-19 and were isolated with immediate effect. Two juveniles were found missing during counting. We informed police immediately,” added Soni.