Two held for hiding travel history in Samba, one booked in Bandipora
Jammu: A man from UP who did not share his travel history with the authorities and a ‘moulvi’ who gave him shelter in a mosque have been apprehended in Samba district, officials said on Thursday.
Acting on a tip-off, police raided the Chak Doulat mosque and held the two men on Wednesday night, they said.
A case has been registered against the man from Uttar Pradesh and the ‘moulvi’ (preacher).
Samba Police has appealed to the public to come forward with any information about individuals who have recently come from outside the union territory and are hiding their travel history from authorities.
Meanwhile, police in North Kashmir’s Bandipora district registered an FIR against a man associated with Tableegi Jamat for allegedly concealing his travel history.
A police official said that a person associated with Tableegi Jamat had returned to Kashmir Valley on 21 March last month and had concealed his travel history.
The man had returned from Nizamuddin Awliya Centre of Tableegi Jamat where a number of people who participated in the religious event have already been declared positive for Covid-19 disease.
The police official identified the man as Muhammad Arif Chaniza son of Mehrajuddin Chaniza, a resident of Halmatpora Aloosa Bandipora and said that a formal FIR vide number 29/2020 under section 188, 270 has been registered against him.
He however, said that the man has been quarantined by a medical team at a quarantine centre of the district.
Pertinently, the men affiliated with Tableegi Jamat are in eye of the storm after it came to fore that they gathered at New Delhi for a religious event in which some foreigners infected with Coronavirus infection were present. The first deceased Covid-19 patient died in Kashmir had also participated in the religious event at Nizamuddin Awaliya Centre in New Delhi. (with PTI inputs)
