BANDIPORA — Police in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district registered an FIR against a man associated with Tablighi Jamaat for allegedly concealing his travel history.
A police official said that a person associated with Tablighi Jamaat had returned to Kashmir valley on 21 March last month and had concealed his travel history.
The man had returned from Nizamuddin Auliya Centre of Tablighi Jamaat where a number of people who participated in the religious event have already been declared positive for COVID-19 disease.
The police official identified the man as Muhammad Arif Chaniza son of Mehrajuddin Chaniza, a resident of Halmatpora Aloosa Bandipora and said that a formal FIR vide number 29/2020 under section 188, 270 has been registered against him. He, however, said that the man has been quarantined by a medical team at a quarantine centre of the district.
Pertinently, the men affiliated with Tablighi Jamaat are in eye of the storm after it came to fore that they gathered at New Delhi for a religious event in which some foreigners infected with Coronavirus infection were present. The first deceased COVID-19 patient, who died in Kashmir, had also participated in the religious event at Nizamuddin Auliya Centre in New Delhi.
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