Tablighi Jamaat's Jaunpur district chief dies in temporary jail

VARANASI: Tablighi Jamaat's (district chief of jamatees) Amir Naseem Ahmad died at a temporary jail in Jaunpur district on Wednesday.
Divisional commissioner Deepak Agrawal said that Ahmad, who was booked in a case for arranging shelter for TJ attendees, including 14 Bangladeshis, without reporting their presence to the district administration, was a heart patient and was hospitalised twice in the past nine days.Cardiac arrest is suspected as reason for death. Jaunpur police sent his body for post-mortem.
According to the officials, Ahmad, a native of Firosepur in Jaunpur, had returned from Delhi after attending TJ’s markaj at Nizamuddin on March 9. After it, a batch of 16 TJ attendees including 14 Bangladeshi had reached Jaunpur. These 16 TJ attendees initially stayed at Bada Masjid in the city area. But, when police intensified a drive against TJ attendees present in Jaunpur district without informing the administration and police Ahmad arranged a shelter for them near Lal Masjid in Saraikhwaja police station area limits.
On March 31, Saraikhwaja police arrested 14 Bangladeshis identified as Haji Hafijurrehman Imam, Rafikul Islam, Mainuddin Naeem, Ismail, Nuruddin Sahil, Aminul Islam, Mahboob Rehman, Arimul Islam, Roshan Ahmad, Alameen, AK Faizul Haq, Aquib Hassan Mahboob, Firdaus, Saiful Islam with Yasin Ansari of Jharkhand and Mohd Abul Motalib of West Bengal. All these persons were booked under appropriate Sections of Epidemic Disease Act, Passport Act and Foreigners Act.
Commissioner said that during police investigation, it came to light that shelter for them had been arranged by Ahmad after which a case was lodged against him and he was also arrested. Initially, Ahmad was kept in quarantine centre where his Covid-19 test had also been conducted and he was found uninfected, he said adding that, later, he was sent to temporary jail created in a school premises by Jaunpur administration for epidemic offenders.
On April 28, the health condition of Ahmad deteriorated and he was admitted to a district hospital and also sent to BHU hospital for proper check-up, the commissioner said adding that following improvement in his condition he was sent back to the temporary jail. He was admitted again to Jaunpur district hospital on April 30 from where he was discharged after improvement in his condition.
Ahmad’s health condition deteriorated again on Wednesday morning when he was rushed to district hospital again but he died, said commissioner mentioning that cardiac arrest is suspected as reason of his death. His body was sent for post-mortem.