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With more and more Tablighi Jamaat members being arrested after completing their quarantine period across the state, the government has set up 34 temporary jails, including two for women. The security agencies have so far lodged 350 odd Tablighi Jamaat members, including 156 foreigners and eight women, in these jails.
The foreigners have been charged with violation of Epidemic Diseases Law and Foreigners Act.
Acting tough on missing Tablighi Jamaat members who played major role in the sudden spurt in coronavirus positive cases in UP, the state government has so far arrested 156 foreigners who attended the Nizamuddin markaz congregation and completed their 14-day quarantine. Another 200 Jamaatis have been jailed for violation of Epidemic Diseases Act and lockdown norms.
On Thursday, the government set up eight more temporary jails, taking the total number of such facilities to 34, for lodging Tablighi Jamaatis.
Two special jails to lodge women have been set up in Lucknow and Bulandshahr, and four Jamaat members each are lodged there at present.
The foreign Tablighi Jamaat delegates are natives of Indonesia, Kazakhstan, France, Morocco, Malaysia, Kyrgyzstan, Bangladesh, Sudan, Palestine, Syria, Mali etc.
Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Awasthi has said that the government would not spare anyone violating the law and threatening lives of the people.
“Hitherto quarantined Jamaatis will now be sent to jail. So far 45 FIRs have been lodged against 259 foreigners who attended Nizamuddin markaz and later hid across the state. Of them, 325 foreigners, including 66 Nepalese citizens, have been identified across UP. The police have seized their passports for violating Foreigners Act by attending religious gathering on tourist visa,” Awasthi said.
Besides, around 3,000 Indian were identified in UP and 2,800 were quarantined.
Meanwhile, the Fire department personnel have so far sanitised 12518 places, including hotspots. Sanitisation exercise was carried out in 635 areas identified as hotspots, 1,277 sensitive places, 1,465 markets, 3,411 residential areas and 5,439 other places and establishments.
DG (Fire Services) RK Vishwakarma said that 784 spots were sanitised in Gautam Buddha Nagar (Noida), 724 in Lucknow, 377 in Agra, 216 in Moradabad, 470 in Meerut, 450 in Firozabad, 460 in Ghaziabad, 256 in Mainpuri, 338 in Aligarh, 756 in Bareilly, 576 in Kaushambi, 974 in Varanasi, 346 in Azamgarh, and 318 in Gorakhpur.