Six member of the Tablighi Jamaat quarantined at a hospital in Ghaziabad misbehaved with the nurses, making lewd remarks, dropping their pants and walking naked around the wards, provoking the Uttar Pradesh Government to invoke the stringent National Security Act against them.
The Chief Medical Officer of MMG Hospital in his letter to the Ghaziabad Police stated, “The members of the Tablighi Jamaat who are kept at the isolation ward of the hospital, have been roaming in their wards naked.”
Calling those involved in the indecent behaviour with female members of the nursing staff “enemies of humanity”, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said, “They will neither accept the law nor follow arrangements. Whatever they did with women health workers is a heinous crime… The NSA is being invoked against them.”
Yogi directed that no women health worker or police personnel be deployed in service of Tablighi Jamaat members. “Women officers and workers should not be deployed to treat and provide security to quarantined Tablighi Jamaat members. Only male health staff and cops will be posted in such wards housing Jamaat members,” said a statement issued by the State Government on Friday.
In the complaint, a nurse alleged that the Tablighi members roamed without their trousers in the hospital, sang vulgar songs and made ugly gestures towards female staff.
The nurse added that they were neither taking their medicines nor following social distancing norms.
The Ghaziabad police said the Jamaat members were booked for indulging in ugly acts and passing lewd remarks against the women staff members at the hospital. A case was registered against them at the GT Road Kotwali on receiving a complaint from the chief medical officer.
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.
Ghaziabad Senior Superintendent of Police Kalanidhi Naithani said stringent action will be taken against them. Police have registered the case under Sections 269, 270, 271, 294 and 354 of the Indian Penal Code, the SSP said. The sections relate to sexual harassment and actions which spread disease. The NSA Over 150 members of the Jamaat have been quarantined at different hospitals in Ghaziabad.