211 passports seized in UP for visa violations

Tribune News Service

Lucknow, April 2

Around 1,172 people from Uttar Pradesh reportedly attended the Tablighi Jamaat meet in Delhi of which 884 have already been quarantined, informed Additional Chief Secretary Avanish Awashti on Thursday. Also 286 out of 287 foreign nationals linked to the Nizamuddin gathering have been quarantined.

The UP police have registered 32 FIRs against the foreigners for violating the tourist visa rules and seized 211 passports on CM Yogi Adityanath’s directions.

According to ADG, Law and Order, PV Ramashastri, those who had provided shelter to the foreigners were being interrogated.

Meanwhile, Darul Uloom Firangi Mahal head Maulana Khalid Rashid Firangi Mahali today issued a fatwa that getting tested and treated for corona virus is important and hiding the disease would be considered a crime.

Also 26 persons fled from a quarantine facility in Sultanpur and 35 from a Hathras facility. The police have caught and charged them for negligence.

In Surat, 54,000 under mass quarantine

Ahmedabad: The Surat MC has quarantined an entire area having 54,000 people after a 67-year-old man, owning a laundry, tested Covid positive. Some 55 health teams are undertaking door-to-door survey to identify if anyone has Covid symptoms. OC