On Sunday, nine members of Tablighi Jamaat from Maharashtra who were in Assam’s Darrang district and did not report to police were detained.
Guwahati| Members of the Islamic missionary group Tablighi Jamaat, whose congregation in Delhi last month has set-off the biggest cluster of coronavirus cases in the country, will be charged with culpable homicide unless they come forward for medical screening, the government of Assam said on Monday.
The government has issued a final call to those who attended the congregation last month at the Markaz or headquarters of the Jamaat in Delhi’s Nizamuddin to report to the nearest state-run health centre by 6 am on Tuesday or face strict criminal charges.
Many members of the group have avoided contacting authorities even as Assam launched a massive manhunt to locate those who attended the congregation and their contacts.
On Sunday, nine members of Tablighi Jamaat from Maharashtra who were in Assam’s Darrang district and did not report to police were detained.
Yesterday, Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that his government has the names of 831 people from Assam who attended Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi. However, only about 500 people have been traced so far despite repeated appeals by ministers in the state.
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Fed up with the low turnout from the Tablighi workers, the minister today said that if people from Assam, who had attended the Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi, do not report by today evening, then legal action will be taken against them starting tomorrow.
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