Cases against 4 Tablighi returnees

Mandi, April 4

The police have booked four persons in Mandi district who had visited the Nizamuddin markaz of the Tablighi Jamaat in Delhi last month but did not inform the district administration about their travel history.

According to the district health authorities, Haseen Ahmad, Yakub, Zakir and Mumtaj of Mandi district did not confine themselves to home quarantine and concealed the information about their travel history.

Maulvi booked for communal post

Dharamsala: The Kangra police have booked Ramzan Butt, a maulvi from the Ray area of the district, for a communal post on social media. Sources said that Ramzan was working for the Tablighi Jamaat.

Kangra SP Vimukt Ranjan said that the maulvi was booked for posting a communal post that threatened to disturb communal harmony in the area.

The Tablighi Jamaat has a centre at Chul village in Thural of the district. Seven preachers of the Jamaat had been staying here since February 18. All of them are from UP but none of them had showed Covid-19 symptoms.

Meanwhile, 10 persons from Indora and Nurpur had attended the Jamaat congregation in Delhi and returned between March 13 and 20. Three of them showed symptoms and were quarantined in the Dharamsala hospital. However, they tested negative for the virus. — TNS