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Long-distance trains used by Tablighi Jamaat preachers IDed

Police are putting together travel histories of those at March meet in Delhi to identify passengers who came in contact with them

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A firefighter sanitises an area near the Nizamuddin Markaz Mosque in New Delhi. PIC/PTI

A firefighter sanitises an area near the Nizamuddin Markaz Mosque in New Delhi. PIC/PTI

In a bid to arrest the further spread of Coronavirus, Maharashtra police have shared details of attendees of the congregation of Tablighi Jamaat at the Markaz Nizamuddin — a major Coronavirus hotspot — in New Delhi with Railway officials to zero down on the attendees' co-passengers. Over a dozen trains ply between Mumbai and Nizamuddin.

State Health Minister Rajesh Tope said that out of the 1,400 attendees, 1,300 have been traced and quarantined, with some having tested positive for COVID-19. But what is more worrying for the police and state government is tracing those who travelled with the attendees in the identified long-distance trains.

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