No lesson from Nizamuddin Markaz: Hundreds gather at West Bengal mosque for prayers
Kolkata/IBNS: At a time when the total number of Covid-19 positive cases has crossed 6761 in India, hundreds of people reportedly attended Friday prayer at a mosque in West Bengal's Murshidabad district defying prohibitory orders amid lockdown.
According to reports, most of those men, including a large number of children and aged persons, had gathered at the mosque without wearing masks or following any other safety and precautionary measure.
After being informed, local police rushed to the scene and vacated the entire mosque.
Senior police officials also warned the Imam of the mosque against holding any gathering further during the coronavirus lockdown, reports said.
India is already reeling under the incident in New Delhi last month when right under the nose of the Delhi Police, Tablighi Jamaat, the Islamic missionary movement, turned a busy, crowded Nizamuddin in the national capital into the hotspot of the spread of COVID-19.
At a time the idea of social distancing was embraced worldwide, Tablighi Jamaat, an "orthodox" missionary, congregated around 3,000 people from home and abroad at Alami Markaz Banglewali Masjid in Nizamuddin in New Delhi last month flouting all norms of self-isolation, triggering a surge in the Covid-19 cases and resultant deaths in India.
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