Sample swabs of two persons, including a young man from Kumarapada locality here, who had joined the Tablighi Jamaat in New Delhi, were tested negative for Covid-19 on Saturday. The persons have been asked to go back home from the quarantine ward of Dumka Medical College where they had been put up.

Hunger probe

The block development officer of Kasmar block, Rajesh Kumar Sinha, on Friday denied that Binod Tudu, 30, a resident of Ponda village and a daily wage earner, did not have food at home, as reported by a vernacular daily. He said that Tudu has a ration card under his father’s name and receives 25kg rice and 1.5l kerosene oil every month. Tudu is unwell not because of hunger but from extrapulmonary tuberculosis (an infection in organs other than lungs), the BDO said. The block medical officer, Md Nawab, said Tudu was wrongly diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis before at the New Max Hospital in Sector IV. BDO Sinha visited Tudu’s house on Friday and said: “We carried out a probe on the hunger issue. No such problem was found. The man was suffering from some disease and was undergoing treatment.” Sinha further added that Tudu’s wife Rita Devi had also clarified that none of their land had been sold for his treatment.

Fatal fall

Lakhi Bera, 35, was fatally injured after he fell off a triple-storey building on Slag Road under Sitaramdera police station area here on Saturday afternoon. The deceased’s wife Radha Bera has lodged an FIR alleging that her neighbour Rishi Mukhi had pushed her husband from the building’s roof after a brawl. Police are investigating her allegations.

Foodgrain banks

East Singhbhum deputy commissioner Ravi Shankar Shukla on Saturday directed the setting up foodgrain banks at the offices of Jamshedpur Notified Area Committee, Mango Notified Area Committee, Jugsalai municipality and Jamshedpur block office where donors could deposit food packets and for distribution among the needy during the lockdown period.

Nabbed for FB post

Cyber police on Saturday arrested Mango resident Khalid Majeed, 25, for posting objectionable content on Facebook on Friday.