7 more Tablighis from Nizamuddin identified, quarantined in Gujarat

Gandhinagar, April 4 (IANS) The Gujarat police on Saturday identified and quarantined 7 more persons from the Tablighi Jamaat, who returned from Delhi’s Nizamuddin after the lockdown came into force. All are from Navsari.

So far 110 such persons have been quarantined in Gujarat since Friday.

“We have identified and quarantined 7 more persons from the Tablighi Jamaat, who returned from Nizamuddin in Delhi after the nationwide lockdown was imposed. The procedure of medical check-up and quarantine is being carried out right now” said Shivanand Jha, Directorate General of Police (DGP).

“Yesterday we had identified and quarantined 103 persons from the Jamaat. Two of them were found positive and one of them died,” said Jha.

“The police have lodged four complaints against 10 such Tablighis for violating the lockdown provisions. Two case are in Botad, one is in Bhavnagar and one has been registered in Navsari. We request all such persons to come forward,” said Jha.

“We have received a list of 1,350 such persons from the Central government, who are believed to have been a part of the Tablighi Jamaat and returned from Nizamuddin after the lockdown. We are hopeful of identifying them,” he said.

“We are carrying out surveillance through modern technology like drones. As many as 273 complaints have been filed and we have arrested 2,777 persons for violation of lockdown, using the drone technology. Right now we are using 144 drones across the state and will scale up their number,” said Jha.

“Using the CCTV footage, we have filed 33 complaints concerning various violations yesterday. A total of 113 cases have been registered and 234 persons have been arrested,” he said.

The police has registered 1,213 complaints for violation of CrPC 144, 451 complaints for violation of quarantine and 201 other crimes.

–IANS

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