India Fights Corona: FIRs Filed Against Tablighi Jamaat Members In Delhi & Mumbai

New Delhi/Mumbai: Delhi Police have filed two criminal cases against some Tablighi Jamaat members for their alleged misconduct at quarantine centres in the national capital.

In Mumbai, police have filed an FIR against 150 people associated with the Tablighi Jamaat congregation at Nizamuddin for violating quarantine orders.

In Delhi, an FIR was lodged against two Jamaat members, residents of UP’s Barabanki district, for defecating in front of their room at a Narela quarantine centre, a senior Delhi government official said on Tuesday, the Hindustan Times reported.

In the second, officials at Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan hospital in central Delhi complained that some COVID-19 suspected patients were spitting on the premises.

“It was reported that some COVID-19 suspected persons who have been quarantined on the third floor of the hospital’s emergency building were spitting on the southern side towards the operation theatre,” a senior doctor said. “The incident is purely a health hazard issue and should be simply treated as such,” the doctor said.

Also on Tuesday, a senior Mumbai Police officer, quoted by news agency ANI, said, “FIR registered against 150 people of Tablighi Jamaat at Azad Maidan police station for violating quarantine orders (IPC Section 271) and violating government official preventive order (IPC Section 188).”