MHA blacklists 960 foreign Tablighi Jamaat members
| Date :04-Apr-2020 |
NEW DELHI :
FOUR Americans, nine Britishers and six Chinese nationals were among the 960 foreign Tablighi Jamaat activists who were blacklisted and their tourist visas cancelled by the Union Home Ministry, officials said on Friday. The foreign Jamaat members, who are currently in different parts of the country, some of whom have tested positive for COVID-19, also include 379 Indonesians, 110 Bangladeshi, 63 Myanmarese and 33 Sri Lankan citizens. As many as 77 citizens from Kyrgyzstan, 75 Malaysian, 65 Thai, 12 Vietnamese, nine Saudis and three French nationals were also among those Tablighi Jamaat activists who were blacklisted and their visas cancelled, a Government official said.
Action against the foreign Tablighi Jamaat members were taken after over 2,300 activists, including 250 foreigners of the Islamic organisation were found to be living at its headquarters located at Delhi’s Nizamuddin despite the 21-day lockdown imposed to check the spread of coronavirus. More than 300 of these Tablighi Jamaat activists have tested positive for COVID-19 while others have been put in different quarantine centres. At least 9,000 people had participated at a congregation at the Nizamuddin Markaz last month after which many have travelled to various parts of the country for missionary works. So far, around 400 COVID-19 positive cases and about 12 deaths in the country were found to have links with the Nizamuddin Markaz.
The other foreigners include seven from Alegria, one from Australia, two from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, three from Côte d’Ivoire, five from Djibouti, one from Egypt, three from Ethiopia, one from Fiji, three from Gambia, 24 from Iran and one from Jordan. They also include 14 from Kazakhstan, one from Kenya, three from Madagascar, two from Mali, 10 from Philippines, three from Qatar, one from Russia, one from Senegal, one from Sierra Leone, one from South Africa, four from Sudan, one from Sweden, eight from Tanzania, one from Togo, three from Trinidad, three from Tobago, two from Tunisia, two from Ukraine, 12 from Vietnam and others six.
UP Govt to invoke NSA against Tablighi Jamaat members for harassing nurses
GHAZIABAD (UP) :
TABLIGHI Jamaat members quarantined at a hospital here allegedly misbehaved with the nurses, making lewd remarks and dropping their pants, provoking the Uttar Pradesh Government’s decision to invoke the stringent National Security Act against them. The six Jamaat members at the district hospital were shifted to an isolation ward set up at a private educational institute after the complaint against them. They are among the thousands who attended a religious congregation at the organisation’s New Delhi headquarter. Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath called those involved in the incident “enemies of humanity”. “They will neither accept the law nor follow arrangements. Whatever they did with women health workers is a heinous crime,” he said on Friday.
“The NSA is being invoked against them. We will not leave them,” he said. The NSA allows preventive detention up to 12 months without a charge if the authorities are satisfied that the person is a threat to the national security or law and order. In the complaint, a nurse has alleged that the coronavirus suspects were roaming without trousers in the hospital. They sang vulgar songs and made ugly gestures, the nurse alleged, adding that they were not taking their medicines. They were also not following social distancing norms, she said.
Meanwhile, doctors from various hospitals in the national capital, where the members of Tabligh-e-Jamaat are admitted, have complained to the Delhi Government that those from the religious organisation undergoing treatment are not cooperating with the medical staff, sources said on Friday. The doctors have also demanded enhanced security outside and within the hospitals where the Markaz evacuees have been admitted. A doctor said some patients evacuated from Nizamuddin Markaz, the headquarters of Tabligh-e-Jamaat in south Delhi, don’t follow instructions from doctors and are reluctant to take medicines. Another senior doctor with the Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital recently complained to the Delhi Government that the people brought from Nizamuddin Markaz are not cooperating with the medical staff.