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Imam and the six-member Delhi Special Police team were screened for the virus before they were supposed to leave Guwahati for the national capital. While the police team tested negative, the student leader was diagnosed infected.

Sharjeel Imam, a Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Ph.D. student lodged in Guwahati Central Jail for an alleged inflammatory speech at an anti-CAA protest last year, was tested positive for coronavirus on Tuesday. This comes two days ahead of Delhi Police Special Cell’s plan to fly him down to the national capital.

In excess of 340 prisoners of the Guwahati Central Jail were as of late found to have contracted Covid-19.

“Swab test for the infection was done on Imam on July 19. The outcomes for the equivalent, which went ahead the following day, affirmed him being Covid-19 positive. Right now he is been treated in the COVID Care inside the central jail,” affirmed Dasarth Das, Inspector General of Prisons, Assam Police.

An uncommon group of the Delhi Police arrived in Guwahati to take guardianship of Imam and fly him back to the national capital on July 17.

Imam and the six-part Delhi Special Police group were screened for the infection before they should leave Guwahati for the national capital. While the police group tried negative, the understudy chief was analyzed tainted.

Till the night of July 17, around 338 prisoners of the jail had tried COVID positive. On June 5, one of the prisoners of the central jail, which houses more than 1,000 under preliminaries and convicts, had contracted the infection. The jail at that point was pronounced as a control zone.

On June 13, 29 additional detainees were tried positive, and afterward, the number continued expanding quickly. Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had requested for a total swab trial of the considerable number of detainees and staff of the Central Jail, both PCR and Antigen tests.

“As per COVID convention, Sharjeel Imam needs to remain in the COVID care focus. The understudy head is doing fine,” said the IG Prison.

Imam was captured and brought to the state after his remarks calling for Assam to be “cut off” from the remainder of the nation, which he had clarified as a call for “chakka jam”. He was at first an active volunteer at Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh challenge the Citizenship Amendment Act.

The understudy chief was captured by Delhi police in Bihar’s Jehanabad and was given over to a group of Assam Police over the comment.

Imam was likewise taken to Arunachal Pradesh regarding a similar proclamation, after which he has been stopped in the Guwahati Central Jail. He has been reserved under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).