Lodging Of Petitioners In Quarantine Centre To Avoid Spread Of Covid-19 Impact Is Not Illegal Confinement: Punjab & Haryana HC [Read Order]

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has elucidated that a person kept in quarantine by the authorities due to the COVID-19 pandemic cannot be said to be in "illegal confinement/ detention". The bench of Justice Lalit Batra thus dismissed a Habeas Corpus petition filed for release of two residents of Assam and Bihar respectively, who had been quarantined by the authorities in Haryana,...