The Nizamuddin Markaz, where the Tablighi Jamaat congregation was held in March 2020 amid the COVID19 pandemic has remained shut since then.
The government has also directed the mosque preachers to allocate the sermon next Friday to 'warn' people against the organisation.
Social media only listens to “the powerful voices” and several things are written against judges, institutions without any accountability, said the bench which also comprised justices Surya Kant and A S Bopanna.
The Delhi high court Friday granted two weeks to the Central government to file its reply to a plea by Delhi Waqf Board to open the Nizamuddin Markaz where the Tablighi Jamaat congregation was held amid the COVID-19 pandemic and was locked since March 31 last year.
Plea seeking a probe either by CBI or NIA against Twitter and its users for allegedly posting “Islamophobic posts” after Tablighi Jamaat congregation, will be heard by SC next week.
The Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi was blamed for the spread of coronavirus in the country.
The bench observed this when senior advocate Dushyant Dave, appearing for Jamaat, said the Centre in its affidavit has stated that petitioners are trying to muzzle freedom of speech and expression.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday conducted multi-city searches in connection with a money laundering case filed against Tablighi Jamaat leader Maulana Saad Kandhalvi, trusts linked to the Jamaat and others, officials said.
A Delhi court Wednesday granted bail to 200 Indonesians who were chargesheeted for attending Tablighi Jamaat congregation here allegedly in violation of visa norms, indulging in missionary activities illegally and violating government guidelines issued in the wake of COVID-19 outbreak.
A Delhi court Saturday granted bail to 75 foreign nationals from Thailand and Nepal, who were charge-sheeted for attending a Tablighi Jamaat congregation here allegedly in violation of visa norms, indulging in missionary activities illegally and violating government guidelines issued in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Delhi Police Crime Branch on Saturday filed chargesheets against Tablighi Jamaat members who flew in from abroad to attend the religious congregation at Nizamuddin Markaz in New Delhi in the month of March. 50 chargesheets have been filed against Tablighi Jamaat members from 36 countries. 116 witnesses have been named in the chargesheets.
Granting bail to 31 foreigners -- 20 from Indonesia and 11 from Bangladesh -- Justice G.R. Swaminathan also asked the state and the central governments to facilitate their return to their homeland.
Tablighi Jamaat chief Maulana Saad was spotted for the first time since his controversy on Friday. Saad was the organiser of a religious event wherein thousands of people from India and 41 foreign countries gathered amid the COVID-19 outbreak despite social distancing norms in place.
The Union Home Ministry on Thursday blacklisted more than 2,200 foreign members of Tablighi Jamaat from traveling to India for ten years.
Those chargesheeted on Thursday include Jamaat members from Malaysia, Indonesia and Kyrghyzstan. 12 charge sheets have been filed against 541 Tablighi Jamaat members. The chargesheets have a whopping 12 thousand 339 pages.
These foreign nationals had entered India on tourist visas and participated in the Markaz illegally
In what may embarrass the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan sought to downplay the Nizamuddin Markaz incident after BJP MP G.V.L. Narasimha Rao tried to raise the matter during an online interview with him.
Over 60 foreign nationals, who are members of Tablighi Jamaat, have been arrested by police here for participating in various religious programmes of the organisation in violation of Foreigners Act and under the Indian Penal Code, a senior officer said on Saturday.
Crime branch records statement of 150 Tablighi Jamaat members. Some of them have told the police that they were asked to stay at the Markaz by Maulana Saad. The Maulana is yet to get a coronavirus test done from a government hospital.
A plea has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking release of nearly 3,300 members of Tablighi Jamaat who have been sent to various quarantine centres for around 40 days and not released despite reporting negative for COVID-19.
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