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UP: Two Relatives Of Tablighi Jamaat Chief Maulana Saad Test Positive For Coronavirus In Saharanpur
Swarajya Staff
Apr 16, 2020, 11:04 AM | Updated 11:04 AM IST
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Two relatives of Maulana Saad Kandhalvi, chief of the Tablighi Jamaat, tested positive for Coronavirus in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur district, an official said on Wednesday (16 April), reports India Today.
The district administration has sealed the Mufti locality in Saharanpur’s Mandi area after the two relatives of the Tablighi Jamaat chief tested positive for the deadly virus, Saharanpur District Magistrate Akhilesh Singh said.
Singh further informed that eight other persons from the area have been placed under quarantine.
According to the report, the two persons who tested positive for Coronavirus are Kandhalvi’s in-laws. They had stayed at the Tablighi Jamaat’s religious Markaz in Delhi’s Nizamuddin before the nationwide Covid-19 lockdown was imposed, the DM said.
They had been placed under quarantine along with two other persons, Singh said.
The authorities are now trying to find those people who came in contact with the two relatives of the Tablighi Jamaat’s chief.
Earlier on Wednesday (15 April), the Delhi police charged Saad, who has been on the run ever since the Tablighi Jamaat event came into the limelight, under the stringent sections for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
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