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Rajya Sabha MPs demand to curtail budget session due to coronavirus scare, chairman Naidu says members can take preventive arrangements

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Rajya Sabha MPs demand to curtail budget session due to coronavirus scare, chairman Naidu says members can take preventive arrangements

Rajya Sabha MPs of opposition on Wednesday demanded adjournment of ongoing budget session in view of the outbreak of coronavirus epidemic. Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu said a decision on it will be taken by the government in consultation with stakeholders.

The Trinamool Congress members entered the parliament wearing face masks, but Venkaiah Naidu ordered them to remove those immediately. He said rules do not allow members to sport masks in the House because it will be difficult to conduct proceedings if the chair was defied and asked the TMC members to remove them.

Congress leader P Chidambaram urged the Chairman to allow MPs to decide using protective gear according to their perception of vulnerability. The Chair agreed and said, “if members feel vulnerable they can make preventive arrangements, I leave it to the members”.

The opposition MPs suggested that the budget session should be adjourned to practice a basic preventive measure of social distancing that is already being advocated by the government to limit the spread of coronavirus. The Congress MP Shashi Tharoor took to Twitter and wrote “today Parliament security started conducting fever checks on occupants of all entering the premises, causing long lines of 25-30 cars outside the gate at the time. The problem is fever only starts on Day 3 of #COVID19. Carriers may still be coming in. We really need to adjourn.

M V Rajeev Gowda of the Congress urged the government to adjourn the budget session saying that Rajya Sabha had many senior citizens as MPs who are extremely vulnerable to infection of the novel coronavirus. His senior party colleague Anand Sharma accused the government that it is preaching social distancing but it is not following it in parliament.

However, Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said Parliament should not show panic by adjourning early and instead show the fighting spirit.

Naidu clarified that Parliament house complex has been sanitized and temperature checking is being done at the gates before allowing anyone inside. Also, hand sanitizers have been kept at various points. Two sanitizers were also placed inside the house as well. He assured that MPs can make strengthening measures in the parliament house complex to check the spread of COVID-19.

Congress MP from Rajya Sabha Ripun Bora highlighted the repercussions faced by people due to the high price of sanitizers and masks amid the coronavirus scare. he urged the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to monitor the supply, and ensure their availability and proper prices so that there is no panic among the public.

BJP leader Kapil Mishra raises more than Rs 1 crore through his fundraising campaign for the victims of Delhi riots

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BJP leader Kapil Mishra raises more than Rs 1 crore through his fundraising campaign for the victims of Delhi riots

BJP leader Kapil Mishra, who kickstarted a fundraising campaign to collect funds for the families who were impacted in the recent anti-Hindu Delhi riots, has managed to collect Rs 1,11,08,060, according to the figures updated on the official website of the fundraising portal Milaap.

Kapil Mishra has taken to Twitter today to reveal that the target of his fundraising campaign, which was to collect Rs 1 crore, has been achieved and that no more donations after 6 pm today would be accepted.

On March 1, the BJP leader had taken to social media to kick-start a fundraising campaign to help families who lost their loved ones in the Delhi riots. Mishra has set a target of collecting one crore while hashtag over the same #1Crore4DelhiHindu was seen trending on social media with many sharing the screenshots of the donations made.

A total of 15,483 persons made donations for the campaign with various amounts. While most donations range from few Rupees to few hundred Rupees, film producer Manish Mundra made the highest donation of Rs 10 lakhs.

As mentioned on the fundraising portal’s website, initially the goal of the campaign was to disburse Rs 15 lakh per affected family. An updated note dated March 16 on the website states that it was revised and now the initial Rs 50 lakhs collected would be transferred to the families of the deceased victims, and the amount collected beyond the Rs 50 lakhs will be distributed among the victims whose homes or businesses were damaged in the riots.

On this note, the leader stated that the campaign and the respective account will be managed by Dharma Kosh, a group of Dharmic volunteers and Kapil Mishra’s team.

Violence and anarchy had broken out in Delhi over the riots against the Citizenship Amendment Act. The violence was of communal nature and Hindus had been murdered and their property had been set on fire amidst chants of ‘Allah Hu Akbar’ and ‘Nara e Taqbeer’.

Furthermore, a gun-wielding man who fired shots at the Police was later identified as one local named Shahrukh. He had since then been arrested. However, despite all evidence to the contrary, the usual suspects on Twitter had tried hard to blame ‘Bhagwa terror’ for the ruckus. One person in particular who had come under fire from assorted liberals, political hacks and Islamists was BJP leader Kapil Mishra. They had claimed that Mishra’s speech instigated the riots at the national capital. And now again the leftist propaganda media outlets like The Print, The Quint and The Wire have advanced to target the BJP leader by insinuating that his efforts to help the victims of the Delhi riots are divisive and religion-specific.

NCPCR writes to Delhi Police asking to investigate complaints against Barkha Dutt for revealing identity of infant victim in Delhi riots

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NCPCR writes to Delhi Police asking to investigate complaints against Barkha Dutt for revealing identity of infant victim in Delhi riots

Trouble mounts for controversial journalist Barkha Dutt as the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights have asked the Delhi Police to investigate the matter of her revealing the identity of an infant, a victim of the Delhi riots. NCPCR wrote to Delhi police after complaints were filed against her, accusing her of violating Section 74 of the Juvenile Act which makes disclosing identities of minor criminals and victims a criminal offence.

A complaint was filed with NCPCR against Barkha Dutt by Forum for Indigenous Rights-North East, while another complaint was filed by Delhi Legal Forum. The complaints mentioned that by revealing the name of the infant, Barkha had jeopardised the safety of the victim and the victim’s family. Delhi Legal Forum also sent the complaint to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The forum urged the authorities to take exemplary action against Dutt and asked Twitter India to suspend her Twitter account.

The complaint was then forwarded by the National Commission for Protection of Children Rights (NCPCR) to the Deputy Commissioner of the Delhi Police, asking to enquire into the matter and to send an action taken report along with relevant documents within 10 working days of receiving the letter.

The complaint mentions that Barkha Dutt posted a tweet on March 16, 2020, revealing the identity of the infant victim, including photograph. In her post, Barkha says how a 10-months-old infant, who was carried by her parents in their car, was eaten by sticks and hurled on the road on February 24 during the Delhi riots. She also added that the victim’s collar bone was broken along with sharing the heart-rending pictures of the infant.

When one of the Twitter users highlighted that it might be a gross violation of the infant’s privacy according to law, Dutt brazened it out, citing parent’s consent in publishing the photographs of the infant and claiming that some of the most iconic photos of Bhopal Gas Tragedy were of child victims.

It may be noted that section 74 of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 makes it clear that the identity of a minor, be it an accused in a crime or a victim, the identity can’t be revealed. The law does not say that the identity can be revealed with the consent with parents, there is no such provision in the Act. A case in this regard is Nirbhaya, whose mother had revealed the real name of her daughter, and had wished that the real name is used, but still, media was not allowed the use the name and forced to continue with other names like Nirbhaya. The Bhopal gas tragedy happened before the provisions prohibiting identity of minors were inserted into the law. Therefore Barkha Dutt’s defence that no action was taken after the photos of child victims of the tragedy were published may not hold ground.

Read- Barkha Dutt violates Twitter rules, the social media platform bans rightwing account who had quote tweeted it instead

In addition to the complaint against Barkha Dutt, taking cognisance of a complaint filed by the Legal Rights Observatory group, the National Commission for Protection of Children Rights also wrote a letter addressed to the District Magistrate, South East Delhi, to raise the matter of the assembly of people including children and infants in Shaheen Bagh protests while the threat from the spread of coronavirus looms across the country.

In the letter, the NCPCR ordered the District Magistrate to take necessary action and implement advisories issued by the central government and the Arvind Kejriwal government regarding the coronavirus at Shaheen Bagh protests where children and infant are exposed to the threat of the lethal virus.

Filthy, unhygienic, crowded Quarantine Camps in Pakistan raises concern about increase in Coronavirus cases

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Filthy, unhygienic, crowded Quarantine Camps in Pakistan raises concern about increase in Coronavirus cases

Shocking videos have emerged which shows the filthy condition of quarantine camps in Pakistan meant to keep people with suspected exposure to coronavirus in isolation. Thousands of Pakistanis who returned home from Iran are stuck in filthy, unhygienic quarantine camps with no medical care or sanitation facilities.

A series of videos posted by Pakistani citizens who are quarantined at Taftan camp on the border with Iran has gone viral which show filthy, overcrowded camps. The videos have now created a deep concern that the coronavirus which some citizens may have carried could spread across Pakistan.

Videos circulating on social media show people sleeping on floors and in corridors of permanent structures, and packed into tents erected in a dirty courtyard. Moreover, the Pakistan government has made no attempts to separate sick pilgrims from the healthy.

A Pakistani citizen posting the video on Twitter exposed how reckless Pakistan government was in tackling the global epidemic. In the video, it can be seen that pilgrims at a camp are not following guidelines of social distancing at a crowded camp and are relaxing without even comprehending the seriousness of the Coronavirus threat.

In another video, an aggrieved citizen, who has been locked up in the Taftan camp shows how filthy, squalid the conditions are in the quarantine camp. There are no medicines and the patients are not being given sufficient food. The person in the video can be heard talking about the unhygienic conditions of the bathrooms, which are stinking.

The residents of Taftan camp said the facility lacks running water or flushable toilets, with detainees only able to wash every few days. The heavy gust of wind was also visible, which could cause further more damage to the already ravaged camps.

Another old man who is currently locked up in the filthy tents said that there was no breakfast served in the camps and the food which is being served in the camps was not consumable and also insufficient.

Pakistan shares a 960km border with Iran, with the main crossing point at Taftan in Balochistan province. The Taftan border has been closed since March 16, but thousands of Pakistani Shite pilgrims who were visiting religious sites in Iran have been allowed to return subject to two weeks’ quarantine.

Read- Latest updates and important links about COVID-19 coronavirus

Since last month, more than 4,600 people have been held at the quarantine camp. Of those, 1,822 had been released to their home districts after their 14-day isolation period was over, while several hundred people remain at the camp.

The most worrying news is that the government figures show that at least 134 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Pakistan are the people who went on pilgrimages to Iran and stayed in the camps near Taftan border. With patients carrying coronavirus being present in the Taftan camps, coupled with such filthy, unhygienic camps, Pakistan may face one of the worst outbreaks in days to come.

Four Germany-returned passengers deboarded from Garib Rath train after co-passengers & Railway officials found “Home Quarantine” stamps on their hands

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Four Germany-returned passengers deboarded from Garib Rath train after co-passengers & Railway officials found “Home Quarantine” stamps on their hands

Four passengers with a travel history to Germany and who had “Home Quarantine” stamp inscribed on their hands were disembarked at the Palghar station after alert co-passengers and TTEs onboard Bandra Terminus-Delhi Garib Rath express flagged a red alert, the Western Railway said on Wednesday.

All the four passengers belonged to the same family and were deboarded from coaches G4 and G5 of 12216 Garib Rath when the Ticket Checker along with the co-passengers alerted the authorities at Palghar after seeing the Home Quarantine stamp inscribed on the passengers’ hands. The 4 passengers were earlier screened at the Mumbai Airport where they were found negative for the novel coronavirus but were advised 14 days of home quarantine.

The passengers defied the protocol and were travelling by train to Surat, possibly endangering the lives of fellow passengers. “Four persons suspected to have COVID19 who had flown down from Germany and were heading to Surat were deboarded from Garib Rath train in Palghar today,” Chief Public Relation Officer of Western Railway said. The official Twitter handle of the Western Railway posted details of the incident, exhorting people to stop imperilling lives of others by disregarding the prescribed measures.

The Garib Rath does not have a stop at Palghar but the train was stopped to deboard the passengers suspected of carrying the novel coronavirus. They were taken to a government hospital in Palghar where doctors and local authorities checked them and were subsequently permitted to go forward by road.

Even as the menace of coronavirus has swept the country, authorities administered with the responsibility of stemming its spread have ordered strict measures to be diligently followed by the citizens. Individuals suspected of contracting coronavirus and those who are advised home quarantine are expected to stay indoor and assist the authorities in their efforts to stamp out the virus rather than venture out in public places such as trains and risk transmitting the virus to others.

As a part of the efforts to contain the virus, the Maharashtra government has decided that all people undergoing ‘home quarantine’ for suspected exposure to the coronavirus will be stamped on the left hand. The stamp will contain the date till when they are asked to remain in quarantine, so that they can be easily identified in case they violate the advisory and mingle with the general public.

Masaan Producer Manish Mundra donates Rs 10 lakh to Delhi anti-Hindu riots victims’ help initiative by Kapil Mishra

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Masaan Producer Manish Mundra donates Rs 10 lakh to Delhi anti-Hindu riots victims’ help initiative by Kapil Mishra

Manish Mundra, producer of the movie Masaan, today donated Rs 10 lacs towards the cause of the rehabilitation of the victims in the wake of the disastrous anti-Hindu riots in Delhi. Mundra made the contribution and shared the screenshot of it with BJP leader Kapil Mishra who launched the initiative to provide financial assistance to the victims of targeted violence, their families and those who had lost their homes and businesses in the gruesome riots.

In the aftermath of the ravaging anti-Hindu riots in the northeast Delhi, BJP leader Kapil Mishra floated a crowdsourcing initiative through Milaap.org to raise funds for the victims of the targeted violence. With this initiative, Mishra aimed to collect Rs 1 crore to be passed on to the riots victims and their family members. Mishra had recently posted a tweet, informing that their target of raising Rs 1 crore for the victims of Delhi riots has been achieved.

The devastating anti-Hindu riots in northeast Delhi wreaked havoc for scores of Hindus, with many of them being brutally murdered by the fanatic Muslim mob. It has been reported that the Muslims of the riot-hit areas have been preparing for the riots for weeks in advance and have hoarded stones, acid bottles, petrol bombs on rooftops. They had even made improvised catapults to hurl stones and petrol bombs from rooftops and handcarts.

The mob is also accused of torturing and murdering IB sleuth Ankit Sharma whose badly battered body was later recovered from a ditch in Chand Bagh. Another Hindu man Dilbar Negi was subjected to the most horrific tortures before his murder. Dilbar Singh Negi was burnt alive by a Muslim mob of rioters after his limbs being cut off. The rioters, after cutting his hands and feet, threw the rest of his body into the burning fire.

Uttar Pradesh: All students up to class 8 to be promoted to next class without appearing in examinations

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Uttar Pradesh: All students up to class 8 to be promoted to next class without appearing in examinations

After shutting down all the educational institutions and suspending all the ongoing examinations due to the coronavirus epidemic scare, the Yogi government in Uttar Pradesh has now decided that all the students up to class 8 will be promoted to the next classes without examinations. The decision was taken after the state government cancelled all examinations in the state on Tuesday.

Deputy Chief Minister of UP, Dinesh Sharma, who handles the education portfolio said that the decision has been taken in view of the closure of schools in the state. “The students will be promoted on the basis of the performance all year round.”

The additional chief secretary Renuka Kumar issued the directive on Tuesday. The state’s government has also postponed the evaluation of answer sheets for 2020 high school and intermediate examinations till 2 April.

The decision came after a group of teachers was reported maintaining distance from the evaluation centres due to coronavirus scare. The results of high school and intermediate will be postponed due to the late evaluation process this year.

Earlier, the Uttar Pradesh government banned all forms of protest and demonstrations in the state in order to avoid the general public from being infected by the novel coronavirus. The govt directed for the closure of all schools, colleges, and educational institutions till April 2, while also suspending all competitive and academic board examinations. Earlier, the schools and colleges were closed till March 22 even as the ongoing exams were not disturbed.

Meanwhile, the UP government also announced to compensate daily wage earners with state support whose livelihoods will be affected due to lockdown. Taking to Twitter, UP CM Yogi Adityanath informed that the loss of wages will be deposited in their bank accounts for which a committee has been set up.

The Yogi government has also announced that the state government will bear the medical expenses of those infected with the deadly virus and there will be no deduction of salary for those patients who take leave for coronavirus treatment.

UP’s Power minister Shrikant Sharma clarified that the three-member committee, headed by the UP finance minister and comprising the state agriculture and labour ministers, has been asked by chief minister Yogi Adityanath to submit a report within three days.

Uttar Pradesh has so far reported 16 positive cases of coronavirus till now, 5 of whom have been cured. CM Yogi Adityanath had suggested people to avoid gatherings and not to panic on the issue. All the cinema halls and multiplexes have also been ordered to close down till April 2 in UP.

West Bengal: Bureaucrat’s son tests positive for coronavirus two days after returning from the UK, was not in isolation

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West Bengal: Bureaucrat’s son tests positive for coronavirus two days after returning from the UK, was not in isolation

Amidst the Coronavirus outbreak, West Bengal reported it’s first confirmed case, becoming the 16th state to report a positive coronavirus infection. An 18-year-old youth, with a travel history to the United Kingdom, where almost 55 people have died after being tested positive and almost 1,950 were confirmed as positive, was tested positive for the Covid-19.

The affected youth reportedly returned from the UK on March 15 (Sunday) and didn’t go into quarantine as he was not showing any symptoms. He only got admitted at Beleghata Infectious Diseases Hospital in Kolkata on Tuesday after he showed symptom. He later tested positive for Covid-19. He is one of 18 people admitted to the ID Hospital at present.

The boy is the son of a secretary-level bureaucrat, working in the home department in Nabanna the state secretariat building in West Bengal. The bureaucrat mother of the patient had been attending office at the Bengal state secretariat until Monday. The building houses the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Office, other ministries and departments.

One of his four throat swab test results at the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED) came positive for novel coronavirus infection.

His parents and driver have been kept in isolation, they are being checked for any symptoms. He too has been kept in a separate ward in isolation.

Sources further revealed that the youth attended a party in England where four others had tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

In the meanwhile, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has stated that it is wrong to say that a positive case has been reported from Kolkata since the boy had contracted the disease from the UK.

Health Department sources also said that currently, the state government is trying to identify others who came in contact with the youth, and added that they will also be quarantined.

The total coronavirus positive cases in India has climbed to 153, which includes 25 foreign nationals and three persons who died in Delhi, Karnataka and Maharashtra. 12 fresh cases have been reported from various parts of the country on Wednesday itself.

The Prime Minister’s Office, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW) and Cabinet Secretary are closely monitoring the situation of COVID-19, invoking powers under The Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 to enhance preparedness and containment of the virus. State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF), constituted under Section 48 (1) (a) of the Disaster Management Act, 2005, is now available with State Governments for responding to COVID-19, which has been declared a notified disaster. Various measures have been taken by the Central Ministries along with States/UTs in terms of strengthened community surveillance, quarantine facilities, isolation wards, adequate PPEs, trained manpower, rapid response teams for management of COVID-19.

Mumbai: Cancer patient from Arunachal Pradesh denied entry in housing society calling him ‘Chinese’, Arunachal CM intervenes

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Mumbai: Cancer patient from Arunachal Pradesh denied entry in housing society calling him ‘Chinese’, Arunachal CM intervenes

Amidst the rising fears surrounding the spread of the coronavirus, a cancer patient from North East India was denied entry in a flat in Mulund society in Mumbai over the apprehensions of the virus assuming him to be Chinese national.

Dorji Rinzin, 74, whose chemotherapy at Tata hospital was scheduled to begin on Tuesday, was left in a limbo of uncertainty when he was told on Monday that he couldn’t enter the Sainath Estates, where a flat owned by Bombay Friendship Centre owned is offered as free accommodation to patients, activists and self-help groups.

Tsering Yangzom, daughter of Rinzin, who has accompanied him for his treatment, said that the watchman at the society prevented them from entering. “We were denied entry into the society. The watchman said that we cannot get in as we were from China and might be infected by the dreaded virus,” she said. Tsering Yangzom further stated that they had stayed at the flat earlier for a month during his father’s treatment and the residents of the society had raised no objection then. “The last time we were here, no one had protested against our staying in the society. But this time around, they simply wouldn’t let us in. We have come all the way from Arunachal Pradesh for treatment and looking for a safe place for a stay,” she added. Despite showing documents that they were Indians, the society didn’t let them in.

After being denied entry to the society, Yangzom then approached the secretary of the Bombay Friendship Centre, Anil Hebbar, to sort out the issue with the society residents. However, the inhabitants told him that society is not allowing any outsiders amidst the coronavirus scare. “I spoke to the current and the former secretaries of the building who informed me that they were following the preventive measures announced by the Police and the BMC,” Hebbar said. “We have a flat on the seventh floor which we let to those who cannot afford a hotel during their stay in the city. Despite having valid documents, he was not allowed to enter the building this time,” said Anil Hebbar.

As the society members remained firm on their stand, refusing to allow Yangzom and her father in their society, Hebbar then arranged the accommodation for the father-daughter duo at a guest house operated by the Arunachal Pradesh government in Navi Mumbai. However, they had to commute a long distance to reach the hospital.

Later the members of the housing society claimed that they were denied entry not because of coronavirus scare, but because the NGO had not informed about them in advance. Kashinath Gaikwad, one of the committee members, said, “we had already summoned Anil Hebbar for sending people to the flat without prior intimation a month ago. But, the NGO does not care about it. This is a housing society, not a lodge,” he said.

He said that “during this tough time, if they accommodate anyone from another state, who would guarantee they are clean. We requested them to make some other arrangements for the time being. We have sympathy for the patient, but we cannot do anything about it.”

Before long, the chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh, Pema Khandu, took cognisance of the matter and posted on Twitter today that his office has taken up the matter and coordination is being done.

One of the health department officials privy to the matter said that action will be taken against the society members for restricting Mr Rinzin and his daughter’s stay at the society. “The government has been clear about its instructions regarding the preventive measures to be followed. It has not asked to place restrictions on patients’ accommodation. We will thoroughly investigate the matter and take action against the guilty,” the official said.

Later police issued orders that Rinzin can stay at the society, and once he is able to move, he will be shifted there.

This is a call from Allah, we do not fear Coronavirus, say burqa-clad protestors at Shaheen Bagh

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This is a call from Allah, we do not fear Coronavirus, say burqa-clad protestors at Shaheen Bagh

Even as the deadly coronavirus spreads across the country, the anti-India ‘protestors’ at Shaheen Bagh refuse to vacate the place claiming that they are not afraid of the Coronavirus as the protest was a ‘call from Allah”, reports Times Now.

According to the reports, the protestors at Shaheen Bagh are not ready to evict the protest site despite the COVID-19 outbreak.

As reporters from Times Now spoke to protestors, one of the lady protestors claimed that it was a ‘call from Allah’ to protest at Shaheen Bagh and she is not afraid of the global epidemic of Coronavirus.

“This is the call from Allah. If the government is so concerned about us, they should first withdraw the law. We are respectfully following the diktat of Arvind Kejriwal who had asked us to comply with the ban on gatherings of over 50 people,” said a lady ‘protestor’.

The lady further claimed that the Modi government is afraid of them and stated that the recent directives by the government to restrict gatherings at Shaheen Bagh was a trick to weaken their ‘movement’. “We do not fear Coronavirus,” said the burqa-clad lady.

As the reporter said there is a risk of the virus being contracted to each protestor due to such mass gathering, the lady protestor went on to note that the risk of them being infected with the virus will exist even at their homes and added that there was no question of vacating the protest site at any cost.

Another burqa-clad protestor echoed the similar statements as her colleague at Shaheen Bagh, stated that they are following the diktat given by Arvind Kejriwal as they are protesting in batches of less than 50 persons at a given time.

Recently, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had invoked the Epidemic Diseases Act of 1897 and declared a new set of restrictions to limit the spread of the highly contagious disease.

In order to flout the diktat, the Muslim protestors gathered there in smaller groups and have now decided that they would not end the protest, but spilt themselves into groups of 50 and take precautions by sitting at a certain distance.

In an act recklessness and disregard of the government appeal to avoid large gatherings and crowded places, the Shaheen Bagh protestors have been continuing with their so-called protests at a time the pandemic has shut down the world. The ‘protestors’ have apparently been praying and reading the Quran at the protest site, believing that praying to Allah would safeguard them from the coronavirus crisis.

Read: How the century-old Islamic evangelical event which originated in India spread coronavirus in South East Asia

For about three months now, the anti-Indian protesters in Shaheen Bagh have blocked one of the busiest thoroughfares in the national capital in protest against the enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Act. In addition, there have been allegations that the protesters at Shaheen Bagh are treating it as an independent enclave, with strict regulations enforced in allowing on who joins them in their protest based on their ideological inclinations.

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