Ramaswami: An officer from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) had tested positive for COVID-19, the agency told the NIA’s special court on April 25, the day it was opposing the bail application of civil rights activist Anand Teltumbde. According to The Wire, an assistant sub-inspector had tested positive for the novel coronavirus. However, the NIA court still sent Teltumbde to judicial custody and he was moved to Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai. Both he and activist Gautam Navlakha had been arrested by the NIA on April 14 in connection with the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case. The 70-year-old had been kept in the NIA office for eleven days before the hearing and the agency has reportedly claimed that he had not come in contact with the infected officer. It has said that he had been tested after the officer’s condition was known and the results of the test were negative.