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Jharkhand: 11 'Maulvis' from three countries sent to jail for violating visa and lockdown norms

| @indiablooms | Apr 18, 2020, at 08:06 pm

Jamshedpur/UNI: At least 11 religious preachers from Kazakhstan, Kirgistan and China were sent to jail on Saturdayin connection with violation of Visa and lockdown norms imposed in the country to stop Coronavirus spread.

After quarantining them for 25 days and testing them for COVID-19, the preachers have been forwarded to jail.

All of them had tested negative for Coronavirus in a previous test.

On March 24, these men were nabbed from a mosque in Rangaon village located under Tamar Police Station area of Ranchi district, after which they were quarantined for 25 days at Musabani police training.

On April 7 an FIR was registered against them at Jadugoda Police Station bearing case number 22/20 under sections 188, 269 and 270 of IPC and 14 B of Foreigners Act 1946.

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