Delhi police crime branch searches for Tablighi Jamaat chief Maulana Saad, raids his farmhouse in Shamli

New Delhi: A Delhi Police crime branch team today raided Tablighi Jamaat chief Maulana Saad Kandhalvi’s farmhouse in order to trace him.

The search operation is being carried out in Uttar Pradesh Shamli’s Kandhla. Meanwhile,  Maulana Saad is being searched by the law enforcement authorities after Delhi’s Tablighi Jamaat incident when people in large numbers were found to take part in a religious congregation.

Tablighi Jamaat chief Maulana Saad, who went into quarantine and has not come in public, is being searched by the authorities to question him in relation to the Tablighi Jamaat event following which coronavirus cases in the country exploded.

The Crime Branch team of Delhi Police reaches the farmhouse of Tablighi Jamaat chief Maulana Saad, near Kandhla in Shamli, Uttar Pradesh. pic.twitter.com/3FzIvad79k

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The Delhi police crime branch team has reached Saad’s house with a PPE kit maintain all the precautions amid the outbreak to search for Jamaat chief.

Earlier, Maulana Saad Kandhalvi, who has been booked by the Delhi Police for holding the religious congregation at Delhi’s Nizamuddin during the lockdown, urged the followers of the organisation to pray at home in the month of Ramzan. “I request all, both in India and abroad, to strictly follow the guidelines and instructions of the local or national governments and till the time restrictions are in place and please observe prayers at home. And even in this, we should not invite people from outside,” Maulana Saad said in an audiotape.