Coronavirus: Himachal Tablighi head booked for misleading police

Tribune News Service
Solan, April 4

Head of Himachal Pradesh’s Tablighi Jamaat was booked on Saturday for having concealed information in connection with a person who attended a religious congregation last month, officials said.

Sirmaur Police registered a case against Hukamdeen for having misled police with regard to one particular attendee, a Majra-based cloth seller, Superintendent of Police Ajay Krishan Sharma said.

The suspect is believed to have misled the police with regard to the person’s whereabouts when he was still in the district.  

He was booked for disobeying a public servant’s order (Section 188) and an act that are likely to spread an infection (Section 269 and 270) of the Indian Penal Code as well as sections of the Natural Disaster Act.

Meanwhile, the attendee in question was medically examined and sent to quarantine even though he showed no symptoms for coronavirus, officials said.

Police meanwhile said they were investigating Hukamdeen’s whereabouts in March.