New Delhi (NVI): Nine people from Rajbiraj in Nepal, who attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Delhi’s Nizamuddin in India and returned home after secretly crossing the border, have now been placed under quarantine, according to the media reports.
All the people were detained by the police from their homes and were placed in a quarantine facility set up at the local hospital yesterday.
The police set out on a search for those who attended the religious congregation in India after reports that around 19 participants were from Nepal.
According to the District Police Office Deputy Superintendent of Police Tilak Bharati, the quarantined persons had crossed over to Nepal during the night of Sunday and Monday.
“As per our information, more people from the district, from places other than Rajbiraj, also participated in the Muslim religious congregation and some of them have now returned home secretly. We’ll find all of them and put them in quarantine,” the DSP was quoted as saying by The Himalayan Times.
The District Health Office Chief has also urged all attendees of the religious gathering who have returned home secretly to share their travel history immediately.
“It’s the height of irresponsibility and against humanity to put hundreds of lives at risk by refusing to stay in quarantine, so I hereby urge everyone, who participated in that gathering and came home, to come in contact with the authorities concerned and stay in quarantine for the designated period,” he told the newspaper.
Meanwhile, few of those now quarantined said that they didn’t attend the religious gathering in Delhi but returned from a similar program in Bihar.
