KOLAR:
An ASI who was killed in a motorbike accident on Wednesday night has given colleagues a scare after the post-mortem showed he was Covid-positive.
52-year-old Manjunath of Srinivasapur police station died on the spot after colliding with a bike near Shivapura village in Kolar district. The incident took place when he was travelling from Kolar to Srinivasapura.
Colleagues who were his primary contacts are now in quarantine, and the Srinivasapura police station has been sanitised and sealed.
A case was registered and the funeral was to be conducted as per Covid guidelines.