In a significant verdict, the Bombay High Court's Nagpur Bench has ruled that a group of Myanmarese nationals who attended the Tablighi Jamaat Markaz in Delhi in March were not responsible for the spread of Covid-19 nor indulged in propagating their religion. This is the second major verdict of Bombay High Court on the issue of the Jamaatis and the allegation of spreading coronavirus against them. Quashing the FIRs lodged by Nagpur police against the Tablighis - Hla Shwe, Ohn Myint, Khin Maung Than, Daw Thaung, Shar Huhar Med, Khin May Than, Myint Thein and Chaw Sulwin, a division bench of Justice V. M. Deshpande and Justice A.B. Borkar said: "There is no material produced by the prosecution to prove that the applicants were engaged in Tabligh's work and they were involved in preaching religious ideology or making speeches at religious places."

The court also ruled that since they had undergone Covid-19 tests which were negative, "there was no question of spreading infection", nor was there any material evidence in the charge sheet to substantiate this, as contended by the police. "The investigating authorities acted without jurisdiction in registering the FIR" against the applicants and "the investigation conducted by the police was also without jurisdiction", the bench said, as it quashed the FIRs against the Myanmarese nationals. In their plea, the Myanmarese said that they landed in Kolkata on March 2, left for New Delhi, and after attending the Markaz there, reached Nagpur on March 6 for their further activities and lived in the Gittikhadan area of the second capital of Maharashtra till March 21.