Impose ban on Tablighi Jamaat for spreading Coronavirus, demolish Markaz building in Nizamuddin: Letter Petition to CJI

Ajay Gautam, founder of Hum Hindu, a body “against politics of Muslim appeasement” has written a letter petition to Chief Justice of India SA Bobde seeking a direction for a complete ban on the Tablighi Jamaat and all its activities..Thousands of worshippers from across the world attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation held at Nizamuddin from March 13-15, even as the country began taking measures to contain the spread of COVID-19..Urging the Court to treat his letter as a public interest litigation, Gautam has said that even after orders by the Delhi government on March 12 and March 16 prohibiting congregation of 50 or more, people continued to remain at the Nizamuddin Markaz. The petition states,.“It is submitted that Hundreds of foreigner of 61 countries who were came on tourist Visa joined above gathering for propagating Islam in India. It is further submitted that hundreds of foreigners who joined the gathering came from where the Coronavirus already spread in large numbers. It is further submitted that the above named organization hid this information from the concerned agency.” .The petition has also squarely blamed the Jamaat for “spreading COVID-19 to 21 states across India.”.Gautam has stated that even though police and medical authorities asked the Jamaat members to come forward and report the medical complications, “none of them came forward” and it is only after police raid that the “infected” ones were found to be inside the Markaz building..The Hum Hindu founder has stated that the Court should direct the Delhi government to demolish the Markaz building situated at Nizamuddin as it was an “illegal structure.”.It has also been stated that the Jamaat members were creating problems for doctors and were found to be hiding in mosques..“Thousands of participators/Jemaateis including foreign nationals were evacuate/arrested/detained by the police from hundreds of mosques/Madarsas who were hide themselves after many advisories issued by agencies. That thousands of participators/Jemaateis are still out of reach from the hands of agencies and spreading this pandemic among the citizens in every part of India.".Summarising the entire congregation as a “planned conspiracy”, Gautam has stated that the Jamaat members were responsible for spreading the pandemic as a “bio-weapon”, and that war has been waged against the Union of India..The petition further notes that there are two substantial questions of law of general public importance to be dealt by the court:Whether a particular community/section of the society can be permitted to flagrantly violate the law of land?Whether the law of land discriminates between the minority and majority?.Gautam has also prayed for a CBI probe into the role of the Jamaat in spreading COVID-19 in India, as well as its alleged role in the communal riots that took place in North East Delhi in February..Yesterday, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind moved the Supreme Court claiming that the media has communalised the Nizamuddin Markaz event, where about 2,500 individuals congregated in the midst of the Coronavirus outbreak..Breaking: Petition filed in Supreme Court seeking action against media for communalizing Nizamuddin Markaz issue .[Read the letter petition]