Police commandos were deployed in Kerala's Poonthura as the village turned into a Covid hotspot.
The fishing hamlet, on the outskirts of state capital Thiruvananthapuram, has seen over a hundred infections.
The commandos are to enforce a strict lockdown in the village.
Days earlier, the state government had imposed a 'triple lockdown' in Thiruvananthapuram to curb infections.
Kerala's Covid tally has crossed the 6,000-mark with over 25 deaths.