UP cops track down 150 Tablighis in 48 hrs

TNN | Apr 23, 2020, 06:10 IST

LUCKNOW: At least 150 members of Tablighi Jamaat, including foreign participants of Nizamuddin markaz were tracked down by Uttar Pradesh police in a gruelling 48-hour surveillance mission that concluded late Tuesday taking the quarantine-and-arrest count of Jamaatis to 3,204, including 341 preachers from abroad. This followed intelligence inputs of more than 500 Tablighi attendees hiding in the state.
At least 10 members of a Tablighi offshoot from Gujarat were traced to Kanpur and 123 Jamaatis from Meerut police zone. Other areas where Jammatis were tracked down in last 48 hours include Hathras and Bareilly. Additional director general of police, Meerut Zone, Prashant Kumar-I, said night-vision drones along with an advanced surveillance machinery are being rolled out to trace more Jamaatis. tnn