Quarantine restrictions violators may face 6 months prison in

The Karnataka government on Monday said anyone who violates quarantine restrictions can be booked under provisions of the Indian Penal Code, which provides for imprisonment up to six months and fine.

"We will book a case against them. IPC Section 271 (Disobedience to quarantine rule) is a clear section, there is imprisonment for six months or a fine or both and is a non-cognisable (offence)," Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai said.

Speaking to reporters here, he said: "therefore, we will notify the quarantined, if it is violated, a case will be booked.

Asked if the law applied to the quarantined if they are from other states, the Minister said, "whoever it is or from wherever they are once quarantined, they should not go out, only after quarantined days are over they should go.

Once they come here and we have identified and stamped them they have to be quarantined here only, they cannot go."