The Uttarakhand police have claimed that 26 people from State who had attended the religious congregation of Tablighi Jamaat in the Nizamuddin area are in presently in Delhi. The director general (DG), Law and Order, Ashok Kumar said that none of these people has reached the State. He added that as a precautionary measure, the State police have earmarked 713 people in the state who had attended the congregation of Tablighi Jamaat in Nizamuddin area of Delhi anytime from January 01 this year. Ashok Kumar claimed that the data of the police is very exhaustive there is little chance of any big deviation from this figure of 713.
“The police have also identified 173 people who had come to the state from the congregation of Nizamuddin in last 28 days. All of them have been sent on quarantine,’’ he informed. The DGP (Law and order) said that the Uttarakhand police have also registered FIRs against the people who have attended the congregation and have not informed the authorities. The FIRs have been registered in Srinagar and Udham Singh Nagar against such people. In Srinagar the police registered case against five residents of Bijnor who had attended the Jamaat programmes and had not informed the authorities
He appealed that the people who had attended the Jamaat meetings should not hide their travel histories and help in fight against the novel Coronavirus. “ It is in the interest of them and their families. If they fail to inform then cases would be registered against them,’’ Ashok Kumar said.
The congregation of Tablighi Jamaat which is in the centre of the storm and is being labelled as COVID-19 hotspot in India was held in Nizamuddin from March 10 to 13.
Ten people who attended the event have died so far from COVID-19.
On Wednesday, the authorities after a 36 hour long campaign cleared the six storied building of the Jamaat in Nizamuddin. There were 2361 people present in the building; of them 617 were admitted in hospitals and rest were sent on quarantine.