Ludhiana ACP dies of coronavirus, Punjab toll rises to 16

He was a frontline officer, working on 9-10 hours duty at city’s busiest wholesale vegetable market, since curfew was imposed in Punjab to contain the spread of the virus.

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The ACP had tested positive for novel coronavirus on April 13 (File)

Ludhiana city police’s assistant commissioner of police (ACP, North) Anil Kohli, who was diagnosed with the novel coronavirus on April 12 late, died at SPS Hospital Saturday. With his death, the toll in Punjab has gone up to 16.

Kohli was a frontline officer, working 9-10 hours at the city’s busiest wholesale vegetable market, since curfew was imposed in Punjab to contain the spread of the virus. He was admitted in hospital on April 8. It is suspected that he got infected at the sabzi mandi.

Ludhiana Civil Surgeon Dr Rajesh Bagga said, “The ACP’s source of infection is still not clear.”

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Dr Rajiv Kundra, Medical superintendent, SPS Hospital, said that the 52-year old officer’s condition started deteriorating late Friday. “He had a multiple organ failure which led to cardiac arrest,” he said.

ADCP Sachin Gupta, nodal officer for Covid-19, said that a donor for ACP’s plasma therapy was also arranged but before planned therapy could be done, he passed away.

Meanwhile, another assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of Ludhiana police tested positive Friday. Till now, four policemen from Ludhiana city police have tested positive for the virus including the late ACP, his constable gunman and SHO (two direct contacts) and ASI (SHO’s direct contact).

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Divya Goyal

Divya Goyal is a Principal Correspondent with The Indian Express, based in Punjab. Her interest lies in exploring both news and feature stories, with an effort to reflect human interest at the heart of each piece. She writes on gender issues, education, politics, Sikh diaspora, heritage, the Partition among other subjects. She has also extensively covered issues of minority communities in Pakistan and Afghanistan. She also explores the legacy of India's partition and distinct stories from both West and East Punjab. She is a gold medalist from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Delhi, the most revered government institute for media studies in India, from where she pursued English Journalism (Print). Her research work on “Role of micro-blogging platform Twitter in content generation in newspapers” had won accolades at IIMC. She had started her career in print journalism with Hindustan Times before switching to The Indian Express in 2012. Her investigative report in 2019 on gender disparity while treating women drug addicts in Punjab won her the Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitivity in 2020. She won another Laadli for her ground report on the struggle of two girls who ride a boat to reach their school in the border village of Punjab. ... Read More

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