Religious Sect

The fate of Netflix film 'Maharaj', set to mark the debut of Aamir Khan's son Junaid, hangs in balance with a Vaishnavite sect alleging that it misrepresents their religious beliefs.

The move has been opposed by some segments for its religious overtones for which the SPPU has put out a notification claiming that is was based on the philosophy of the 'Ganpatya sect' and not on religion.

A year after Tabligh-e-Jamaat's Markaz in Nizamuddin West came under criticism for holding a religious congregation amid the COVID-19 outbreak, its cleric Maulana Saad Kandhalvi against whom a case was registered in connection with the incident is yet to join the probe despite several notices by Delhi Police.

The foreign nationals who attended a religious event at Delhi's Nizamuddin in March were "virtually" persecuted and blamed for spreading coronavirus as part of a propaganda, the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court observed on Friday, dismissing cases filed against 29 foreigners.

The Delhi High Court Monday asked the centre, Delhi government and police to reply to a plea by several foreign nationals, who are connected to the Islamic Sect Tablighi Jamaat and had participated in the religious congregation at Nizamuddin Markaz event earlier this year amid the coronavirus outbreak, seeking permission to add three more places of...

Over 60 foreign nationals, who are members of Tablighi Jamaat, have been arrested by police for participating in various religious programmes of the organisation in violation of Foreigners Act and under the Indian Penal Code, a senior officer said on Saturday.

The Delhi Police's Crime Branch has raided a farmhouse of Tablighi Jamaat leader Maulana Saad Kandhavli, who was charged for organising a religious congregation in New Delhi in violation of COVID-19 lockdown orders, officials said on Thursday.

Tablighi Jamaat leader Maulana Saad Kandhalvi, who has been charged by the Delhi Police for holding a religious congregation during the lockdown, on Tuesday appealed to coronavirus survivors to donate blood plasma for infected people.

Maulana Saad Kandhalvi, the chief of the Islamic group Tablighi Jamaat that organised a religious congregation in Delhi last month setting off India's largest cluster of coronavirus cases, has said in a letter to the city police that he has already joined the investigation against him, adding that he is "willing to cooperate".

Islamic sect 'Tablighi Jamaat' leader Maulana Saad Kandhalvi has been booked for culpable homicide after some of the attendees of the religious congregation died due to coronavirus, police said today.

After three members of a family in south Delhi contracted coronavirus, their guard, who allegedly attended the religious gathering of Islamic sect Tablighi Jamaat, has been charged by the police.

All those who attended the religious gathering in Delhi - hosted by Tablighi Jamaat -- or were in the vicinity, are being traced through cellphone data, sources in the Delhi Police told NDTV. The Crime Branch has been investigating the case as it was identified as a hotspot for the spread of the highly contagious coronavirus.

Nearly a third of all confirmed novel coronavirus cases in India - 1,023 of 2,902 reported so far - are linked to Islamic sect Tablighi Jamaat and its religious gathering in Delhi last month, the Health Ministry said today

Nearly 650 coronavirus cases reported over the last two days are linked to the religious gathering of the Islamic sect Tablighi Jamaat in Delhi, the government said today. "647 coronavirus positive cases found in last two days are linked to Tablighi Jamaat congregation," said Lav Agarwal, a senior health ministry official. That constitutes 28 per c...

Some members of the Islamic missionary sect Tablighi Jamaat, which organised a religious gathering in Delhi linked to hundreds of coronavirus cases, face charges under the National Security Act (NSA) after allegations of assault on nurses and obscene behavior at a hospital in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. Describing them as "enemies of humanity", Chief...

The fate of Netflix film 'Maharaj', set to mark the debut of Aamir Khan's son Junaid, hangs in balance with a Vaishnavite sect alleging that it misrepresents their religious beliefs.

The move has been opposed by some segments for its religious overtones for which the SPPU has put out a notification claiming that is was based on the philosophy of the 'Ganpatya sect' and not on religion.

A year after Tabligh-e-Jamaat's Markaz in Nizamuddin West came under criticism for holding a religious congregation amid the COVID-19 outbreak, its cleric Maulana Saad Kandhalvi against whom a case was registered in connection with the incident is yet to join the probe despite several notices by Delhi Police.

The foreign nationals who attended a religious event at Delhi's Nizamuddin in March were "virtually" persecuted and blamed for spreading coronavirus as part of a propaganda, the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court observed on Friday, dismissing cases filed against 29 foreigners.

The Delhi High Court Monday asked the centre, Delhi government and police to reply to a plea by several foreign nationals, who are connected to the Islamic Sect Tablighi Jamaat and had participated in the religious congregation at Nizamuddin Markaz event earlier this year amid the coronavirus outbreak, seeking permission to add three more places of...

Over 60 foreign nationals, who are members of Tablighi Jamaat, have been arrested by police for participating in various religious programmes of the organisation in violation of Foreigners Act and under the Indian Penal Code, a senior officer said on Saturday.

The Delhi Police's Crime Branch has raided a farmhouse of Tablighi Jamaat leader Maulana Saad Kandhavli, who was charged for organising a religious congregation in New Delhi in violation of COVID-19 lockdown orders, officials said on Thursday.

Tablighi Jamaat leader Maulana Saad Kandhalvi, who has been charged by the Delhi Police for holding a religious congregation during the lockdown, on Tuesday appealed to coronavirus survivors to donate blood plasma for infected people.

Maulana Saad Kandhalvi, the chief of the Islamic group Tablighi Jamaat that organised a religious congregation in Delhi last month setting off India's largest cluster of coronavirus cases, has said in a letter to the city police that he has already joined the investigation against him, adding that he is "willing to cooperate".

Islamic sect 'Tablighi Jamaat' leader Maulana Saad Kandhalvi has been booked for culpable homicide after some of the attendees of the religious congregation died due to coronavirus, police said today.

After three members of a family in south Delhi contracted coronavirus, their guard, who allegedly attended the religious gathering of Islamic sect Tablighi Jamaat, has been charged by the police.

All those who attended the religious gathering in Delhi - hosted by Tablighi Jamaat -- or were in the vicinity, are being traced through cellphone data, sources in the Delhi Police told NDTV. The Crime Branch has been investigating the case as it was identified as a hotspot for the spread of the highly contagious coronavirus.

Nearly a third of all confirmed novel coronavirus cases in India - 1,023 of 2,902 reported so far - are linked to Islamic sect Tablighi Jamaat and its religious gathering in Delhi last month, the Health Ministry said today

Nearly 650 coronavirus cases reported over the last two days are linked to the religious gathering of the Islamic sect Tablighi Jamaat in Delhi, the government said today. "647 coronavirus positive cases found in last two days are linked to Tablighi Jamaat congregation," said Lav Agarwal, a senior health ministry official. That constitutes 28 per c...

Some members of the Islamic missionary sect Tablighi Jamaat, which organised a religious gathering in Delhi linked to hundreds of coronavirus cases, face charges under the National Security Act (NSA) after allegations of assault on nurses and obscene behavior at a hospital in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. Describing them as "enemies of humanity", Chief...