{"id":227821,"date":"2020-04-02T14:29:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T08:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=227821"},"modified":"2020-04-10T12:38:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T07:08:27","slug":"tablighi-jamaat-crisis-guj-hc-union-of-india-to-provide-complete-information-to-state-of-gujarat-of-persons-who-were-present-for-tablighi-jamaat-have-entered-gujarat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/04\/02\/tablighi-jamaat-crisis-guj-hc-union-of-india-to-provide-complete-information-to-state-of-gujarat-of-persons-who-were-present-for-tablighi-jamaat-have-entered-gujarat\/","title":{"rendered":"Tablighi Jamaat Crisis | Guj HC | Union of India to provide complete information to State of Gujarat of persons who were present for Tablighi Jamaat & have entered Gujarat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gujarat High Court:\u00a0<\/strong>A Division Bench of Vikram Nath, CJ and Ashutosh J. Shastri, J. addressed a suo motu public interest litigation in view of incident of mass congregation in Delhi.<\/p>\n

At least 200 members of the said congregation have been reported to traveled to the State of Gujarat who may be infected with COVID-19. News reports have further confirmed death of one person in Gujarat out of a total of 8 deaths all over the country who had participated in the congregation at Delhi.<\/p>\n

Further the Court noted that no one knows where all these 200 or more members of the congregation are now based in Gujarat.<\/p>\n

Advocate General, Kamal B. Trivedi appearing for State of Gujarat submitted that Government is already in the process of identifying and tracing not only the members of the said congregation having travelled to Gujarat but also the details of other persons coming in close contact with the said members.<\/p>\n

Devan Vyas, Assistant Solicitor General, on behalf of union of India, assured the Court that Central Government after collecting necessary data from State of Delhi with regard to the above would share the same with respective states including Gujarat.<\/p>\n

High Court in its earlier order had directed the State Government to ensure that no gathering takes place in all the places of worship in the State but that would not mean that daily\u00a0puja\/aarti\/service\/offering of prayer(<\/em>namaaz)\u00a0<\/i>in these places of worship is to be stopped bu that the same would carried out by the respective managements without making such places open to public.<\/p>\n

Advocate General during the present hearing assured that the above would be strictly followed.<\/p>\n

In the present hearing, Court issued that Union of India will provide complete information to the State of Gujarat and to the Court in a sealed cover of all those persons irrespective of their nationality who were party to the Tablighi Jamaat and have entered to the State of Gujarat.<\/p>\n

Further the State Government shall provide following details:<\/p>\n