On the afternoon of 4 September, the 28-year-old customer service executive left her residence after two men wearing PPE arrived at with an ambulance claiming to be from the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike. The two men informed the woman’s husband and in-laws that she was being taken for COVID-19 test, and later to a quarantine centre.
The family was informed that she could not be quarantined at home as she was “in the second stage” and that she had to be admitted to the hospital. Her family members were informed that she was at Prashanth Hospital. When the family contacted the hospital, the doctors there informed them that no such patient had been admitted. The woman’s brother-in-law Vikas Kumar then filed a missing persons complaint with the Bommanahalli Police soon after.
“There is no need to panic. The ambulance was not a BBMP or government one and paramedics handling COVID-19…