patiala a number of villagers along with the sarpanch of a village in patiala have been booked under various sections of the ipc for allegedly attacking a health team that reached the brick kiln in the village to collect covid samples of migrant labourersthe panchayat according to the police had recently passed a resolution to support the health teams in getting conducted the covid samplings however the panchayat after attacking the health team told the police that they had only given consent that their villagers if found positive will be homeisolated the incident took place at khedi malla village of pasiana block in patiala district on wednesday when the villagers reached the brick kiln to prevent the health team for taking samples of labourers after heated arguments the villagers attacked our health teams that included doctors pharmacist anms and others they also thrashed female staff members and later attempted to damage the vehicles of the health team the police was called on the spot and health team was rescued we have lodged the complaint against the sarpanch and others if our teams will be attacked and feel unsafe we will not be able to work properly said patiala civil surgeon dr harish malhotra he revealed that 100 workers as migrant labourers had reached a brick kiln in the village following which the owners of the brick kiln informed the health authorities to collect samples the video of the incident has also gone viral over social media a case has been registered on the complaint of patiala civil surgeonthose accused who have been identified are avtar singh darshan singh gurmeet singh balvir singh nikka singh along with some other unidentified vpersons of khedi mallan village of patiala districtsho pasiana police station sohan singh virk said that no arrests had been made so far he said the village a week ago the police in patiala had got passed resolutions from around 750 village panchayts and 285 colonies in favour of covid testing