Delhi police have laid charges against 82 foreigners for dating Nizamuddin Markaz.
New Delhi:
Delhi police on Tuesday laid charges against 82 foreigners for attending a religious event at Nizamuddin Markaz in Delhi in violation of visa requirements and engaged in missionary activities amid the COVID-19 epidemic in the countries, officials said.
Police have laid 20 charges against foreigners from 20 countries, they said.
A large congregation organized in March by the Islamic sect Tablighi Jamaat in the Nizamuddin region of the national capital had become a major center for coronavirus.
Some of the participants, who subsequently tested positive for the coronavirus, had traveled to their countries of origin and to other regions.
More than 25,500 Tablighi members and their contacts have been quarantined in the country after the center and state governments conducted a “mega operation” to identify them.
“They not only violated government directives issued in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and regulations regarding the law on epidemics, but also flouted the law on disaster management and subsequently restraining orders under article 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, “said the police. .
An FIR was registered against the head of the Tablighi Jamaat Maulana Saad Kandhalvi and six other people on March 31 at the Crime Branch police station under sections of the Epidemic Diseases Act, Disaster Management Act, 2005, and other relevant articles of the Indian Penal Code.
Maulana Saad Kandhalvi was later convicted of a non-murder culpable homicide after the death of some of the members of the religious congregation due to a coronavirus, police said.
According to the police, foreign nationals entered India on a tourist visa and participated in the rally in Markaz “illegally”.
In addition, violating visa requirements, these foreign nationals have also led to a situation where a highly infectious disease has spread and threatened the lives of detainees and the general public, they said.
The police also said that more than 900 foreign nationals who were accused in this case came from 34 different countries and charge sheets were being prepared by country, under the articles of the Aliens Act, the law on epidemic diseases, the Disaster Management Act and section 188 (disobedience). to the order duly promulgated by the official), 269 (Negligent act likely to spread the infection of a life-threatening illness), 270 (Malignant act likely to spread the infection of a life-threatening illness) and 271 (Disobedience to the quarantine rule) of the Indian Criminal Code.
