Mumbai police file FIR against 150 members of Tablighi Jamaat who attended Nizamuddin markaz event

Mateen Hafeez | TNN | Apr 7, 2020, 15:59 IST

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MUMBAI: The Azad Maidan police on April 2 registered an FIR against 150 members of the Tablighi Jamaat who had attended the Delhi's Markaz Nizamuddin and later visited Mumbai. No arrest has been made yet.
Zonal DCP Sangramsingh Nishandaar said, "We have registered an FIR against the members of the Tablighi Jamat and probing the case."
The Mumbai police Since March 20 has booked more than 1,000 people for disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant during the lock down.
Hemant Parab, deputy chief fire officer of the city fire brigade department has lodged the complaint. The police invoked sections 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant), 269 (negligent act likely to spread infection) and 270 (malignant act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life) of the IPC against the accused.
Sections of the Disaster Management Act have also been invoked in the FIR.The 150 members of the Jamat, several of them foreign nationals, had attended a gathering a Delhi and later visited Mumbai last month. Police suspect some of the foreign nationals, who were Covid-19 positive, had transmitted the disease to other members of the Jamaat as well. The group traveled to other places as well. The government had appealed that those attended the congregation at Delhi must come forward for medical examination. However, several of them are believed to not have come forward, forcing a government agency to lodge a complaint.