New Delhi [India], May 12 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the authorities concerned to consider on a case to case basis future applications for grant of visas made by members of Tablighi Jamaat who were blacklisted by the government due to participating in the Nizamuddin congregation in March 2020.
New Delhi Mar 31 PTI The Delhi Police on Thursday informed the Delhi High Court that it will give permission for the reopening of Nizamuddin Markaz to enable devotees to offer prayers during Ramzan after it remained shut since March 2020 when a Tablighi Jamaat congregation was held amid the COVID-19 pandemicThe Delhi Police lawyer said this before Justice Jasmeet Singh who will hear on April 1 the application by Delhi Waqf Board seeking to open the mosque during Shab-e-Barat and RamzanThe application was filed in the Boards 2021 petition which sought the reopening of the premises on the ground that even after unlock-1 guidelines permitted religious places outside containment zones to be opened the Markaz -- comprising the Masjid Bangle Wali Madarsa Kashif-ul-Uloom and attached hostel -- continues to be locked upOn March 16 the high court had allowed the reopening of three floors of Nizamuddin Markaz for Shab-e-Barat subject to various conditionsThe high court had earlier asked the petitioner represented through advocate Waqeeh Shafiq to file an application before the SHO of Hazrat Nizamuddin Police Station seeking permission to open the other three floors of Nizamuddin Markaz to enable devotees to offer prayers during the two occasionsIn a letter addressed to the petitioner the Delhi Police said that opening of the mosque would be permitted on the same terms and conditions which were laid down by the high court while permitting offering of prayers there for the occasion of Shab-e-BaratIn the communication the police also asked the Board to re-install missing CCTV cameras at the entrance of the premises and put up a notice board specifying the conditions for the entrance of foreign devoteesIt had removed the restriction of 100-person limit on one floor and said it has been agreed that the management of the mosque will ensure that COVID-19 protocols and social distancing will be followed while allowing devotees to enter the mosque to offer namazThe senior lawyers for the petitioner and the managing committee of the mosque had then highlighted that Delhi Police remained silent on the arrangement to made during Ramzan The Delhi Police lawyer had stated that the modalities for Ramzan would be worked out after Shab-e-baratThe central government in its affidavit opposed full re-opening of the Nizamuddin Markaz and stated that only a few people may be allowed to offer prayers on certain religious occasionsThe counsel for the Delhi Waqf Board argued that the mosque which is under the lock of Delhi Police should be opened as the Delhi Disaster Management Authority DDMA has now lifted all restrictions that were imposed on account of the pandemicSeveral FIRs were registered under the Epidemic Diseases Act the Disaster Management Act the Foreigners Act and various provisions of the penal code in connection with the Tablighi Jamaat event held at the Nizamuddin Markaz and the subsequent stay of foreigners there during the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020 PTI ADS ZMN
Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], December 12 (ANI): Saudi Arabia has banned the Tablighi Jamaat, terming it a "danger to society" and "one of the gates of terrorism".
New Delhi Oct 23 PTI Child health activities of immunisation growth monitoring and supplementary nutrition came to a standstill between April and June 2020 impacting the children living in the Nizamuddin Basti here after the area was sealed following a religious congregation amid the COVID-19 pandemic according to a research paperThe Nizamuddin Basti came into the limelight when the Tablighi Jamaat headquarters located in the area was localised as the source of Covid according to the paper published in the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights DCPCR first journal Children First Journal on Childrens LivesThe sealing of the area impacted the lives of everyone in the community it said The Tablighi Jamaat congregation was held amid the COVID-19 pandemic at the Nizammudin Markaz following which an FIR was registered under the Epidemic Diseases Act the Disaster Management Act Foreigners Act and various provisions of the penal code in connection with the eventIt was alleged that the Nizamudddin centre visited by thousands had turned out to be a hotspot for spread of coronavirusThe paper was drafted by the Nizamuddin Urban Renewal Initiative under the aegis of the Aga Khan Development Network which has been working in the area since 2007During the pandemic the polyclinic in the area functioned in a limited capacity the paper saidCoupled with the sealing of the Nizamuddin Basti medical intervention and the child health activities of immunisation growth monitoring and supplementary nutrition came to a standstill from April to June 2020 it saidThe paper also stated that uncertainty about life led to an increase in aggression and caused an anxiety about the futureThere was also an increase in cases of domestic violence which had an impact on children it saidMany parents in the area also spoke about excessive television viewing among children as a result of the lockdown Some parents also said children became lethargic and were sleeping for a much longer duration while some children were also reported to be angry and aggressive it said PTI SLB TDS TDS TDS
New Delhi [India], August 23 (ANI): In an interim relief, the Delhi High Court on Monday directed the city police to hand over keys of Nizamuddin Markaz's residential portion to Tablighi Jamaat chief Maulana Muhammad Saad within two days.
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