As many as 14 Tablighi Jamaat meet participants, including 11 Bangladeshis, were arrested after the completion of their quarantine period on Friday.
Telangana Health Minister E. Rajender on Thursday said that 640 of 700 so far tested positive for Covid-19 in the state are attendees of Tablighi Jamaat conclave in Delhi and their contacts.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a money laundering case against Tablighi Jamaat leader Maulana Saad Kandhalvi, trusts liked to the Jamaat and others, officials said on Thursday.
Unnao district in Uttar Pradesh has reported its first coronavirus case. The 23-year-old man was part of the Tablighi Jamaat gathering that took place in Delhi's Nizamuddin.
A 60-year-old man from Madhya Pradesh who attended the religious gathering of Tablighi Jamaat at Nizamuddin in Delhi last month has tested positive for coronavirus, officials said on Thursday.
Coronavirus in Hyderabad: According to the state health minister, 85 per cent of the positive COVID-19 cases in the state are linked with the Nizamuddin Markaz religious congregation. On Sunday, the total number of cases in the state was 531 with 16 deaths.
The Delhi Police Crime Branch is all set to nab Maulana Muhammad Saad as sources said that team of Crime Branch might question the Tablighi leader and other people named in the FIR on Monday or Tuesday.
According to the government spokesman, the police had arrested 21 Jamaatis including 17 foreign nationals from the Taj and Kuraish mosques and all of them were quarantined on March 31.
The Uttar Pradesh Shia Central Waqf Board has directed all its caretakers to immediately inform police if they hear about any person who had attended the Tablighi Jamaat in Delhi's Nizamuddin area.
Fifty-two members belonging to the Tablighi Jamaat out of 102, who have been found gathered in 13 different mosques in Delhi's Chandni Mahal area, have tested coronavirus positive. In Delhi alone in the past three days, at least 3 Jamaat members who were tested positive for coronavirus have succumbed after getting infected.
Delhi has recorded at least 183 new cases of the coronavirus in the last 24 hours. With this, the total tally in the national capital has increased to 903. Out of the 183 new cases, 154 were found to be related to be the Tablighi Jamaat.
The Noida Police on Friday booked 13 people for sheltering at least 10 members of the Tablighi Jamaat. All of them are residents of Begumpur village.
Five fresh cases of coronavirus were confirmed in Mumbai's slum Dharavi, out of which two people had attended Tablighi Jamaat held at west Delhi's Nizamuddin area, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said on Friday.
Waseem Rizvi, the Chairman of the Uttar Pradesh Central Shia Waqf Board, has said that the Tablighi Jamaat had planned a 'fidayeen' attack on India by spreading the deadly coronavirus.
Hundreds of Delhi government employees residing in Gulabi Bagh are up in arms over the shifting of around 120 Tablighi Jamaat members to a quarantine centre set up at a school surrounded by flats, and fear the spread of COVID-19 in the area.
Tablighi Jamaat leader Maulana Saad Kandhalvi has been traced, news agency PTI quoted Delhi Police sources as saying. Saad was on the run after an FIR was registered against him for organising a religious gathering last month despite restrictions to combat the coronavirus.
The guard at the residence, Mustaqim (residing in Okhla), allegedly attended the Tablighi Jamaat gathering at Nizamuddin Markaz
The intention behind the indecent activity of throwing bottles filled with urine may be to spread coronavirus among other people, an FIR in the matter stated. A case has been registered under the relevant section of the Indian Penal Code, police said, adding further investigation is going on.
Earlier, in a tweet by the Chief Minister''s Office (CMO) the tally of cases were 550, however, in a bulletin released by the Delhi Health Department the number of cases were updated to 576.
About 50-60 people who had returned to Maharashtra after attending the Tablighi Jamaat event at Delhi's Nizamuddin Markaz, have switched off their mobile phones.
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