Ludhiana, May 19 -- A government school teacher deputed for Census 2027 duty was confined inside a house in the Model Town area for nearly two hours on Sunday after a family suspected the survey exercise to be fraudulent, police said on Monday.

The incident has raised concerns over the safety of teachers and government staff engaged in door-to-door field assignments.

The teacher, identified as Manisha Dutta, a mathematics teacher working as an enumerator for the census survey, was later rescued after police officials reached the spot. According to her husband, Kanwar Ajay Pal Singh, the incident occurred while the teacher was conducting a door-to-door census survey in the locality.

He said she had approached a house to collect details ...