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A British woman has been accused of Madhya Pradesh, the Police of the illegal detention of a 29-years of age, brother of Sohail Hughes. According to the report, in the British newspaper the Guardian, Hughes lives in Dewsbury in the Uk, and had flown to India in February with the intention of returning May 13.
“Sohail Hughes, 29, had been on an extended vacation to visit family in the state of Gujarat region, before embarking on a pilgrimage of the mosques when he was arrested last month,” his sister Aatika said to The Guardian.
“He was forced to take refuge in a mosque in Bhopal, after being caught out by the speed of security lock implemented laws that force people to stay off the streets. Sohail, along with dozens of other men, had his passport seized before being kept in quarantine for more than a month in the interior of a shelter,” Aatika, 35, said.
The incident prompted Rajya Sabha member and Congress leader Vivek Tankha to write to the Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to withdraw the charges and release the man.
“The family, the British government and the British media are complaining that a British citizen has been arrested by the diffusion of Covid-19 and violating visa regulations after being trapped in the mosque with other people when in reality, he has been repeatedly negative for Covid-19,” Tankha said in the letter, a copy of which is attached with his Twitter post on Monday.
@guardian leading news daily of the uk, citing Sohail Hughes Fmy describes his arrest & detention by the bhopal police illegal. It was a causal visitor without covid + infection. Brit High Com seeks consular access. Bail application rejected. MEAs informed. In bhopal jail. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/5gI6xuxUIZ
— Vivek Tankha (@VTankha) May 25, 2020
“I am truly sorry with the story of Sohail of the detention. I have made an appeal for the state of CM and the director general of police, MP to withdraw the FIR and to seek the closure of the case. These arrests and investigations are a stain on our criminal justice system,” Tankha said.
Additional director general (ADG) of police in Bhopal Upendra Jain said, “When we came to know about the people in Nizamuddin markaz were found Covid-19 positive and many others who stayed with them, visited different parts of the country, we searched all the mosques in Bhopal, which led to the arrest of the members 32 jamaats including seven foreign jamaats. Each one of jamaats had around 14 to 15 members. In total, 74 foreign nationals and some other Indians with each one of the jammats who accompanied him, were arrested.”
He said, “Sohail Hughes was staying in a mosque in Ahata Rustam Khan at Shyamala Hills with another British pilot and 12 other people of the Ivory Coast. According to our research, he was a part of a jamaat and stay in the mosque. He was to preach his religion, which was a violation of the tourist visa conditions.”
“All of them were arrested and later booked for violation of the tourist visa as well as under sections 188 (violation of the order promulgated by the government), 269 (negligently doing any act may spread infection of any disease dangerous to life) and 270 (Malignantly doing any act may convey any disease dangerous to life) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC),” Jain further said.
The police officer said that these people were produced before a local court on May 15, which sent him to jail under judicial custody for 14 days.
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