129 evacuated from Mewat mosques

Sanjay Yadav
Gurugram, April 1

Amid the furore over Covid transmission at the Tablighi Jamaat conference in Nizamuddin, the Mewat administration today conducted raids across the district, evacuating over 129 persons residing in mosques located in Punhana and Hathin blocks. They claimed to be Jamaat members hailing from Bangladesh and Assam.

All evacuees have been shifted to 10 shelter homes and placed under quarantine. Their samples have been collected for testing. For the past three months, hundreds of members of Tablighi Jamaat arriving from Sri Lanka, Malaysia Indonesia, Thailand and Bangladesh have been residing in Mewat mosques. Many have been unable to return owing to the nationwide lockdown in India.

“They came sometime in January. Both district administration and Health Department were duly informed. They have been under self-quarantine,” explained a local maulana. On Tuesday, 26 persons were evacuated from a house in Todapur near Pataudi. They had arrived there just two days ago.