Delhi Court lets go 60 Nizamuddin Markaz attendees with a fine of Rs. 7K each.
The Malaysians were charged on violating visa conditions in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak in India to walk free after paying seven thousand in fine.
On Thursday, Delhi Court let 60 Malaysians walk free, who attended the infamous Nizamuddin Markaz on payment of a fine of Rs. 7000 each after they accepted moderate charges. A lawyer revealed that under the plea bargain process, related to various violations including visa norms, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Delhi’s Nizamuddin Markaz, these people were put on trial.
Their lawyer said that after these people accepted mild charges and pleaded lesser punishments under the plea bargain process, Metropolitan Magistrate Siddharth Malik passed the order.
Markaz attendees get no-objection certificates:
The accused were allowed to walk free after getting no-objection certificates of Lajpat Nagar’s Sub-divisional magistrate, the complainant in the case, Additional Commissioner of the Police of Lajpat Nagar, and the Inspector of Nizamuddin revealed the advocate appearing for the foreign nationals, S Hari Haran.
Tablighi Jamaat walks free:
Such plea bargain cases are only allowed for cases where offenses do not affect the social-economic condition of the society, when the maximum punishment is imprisonment for seven years, and where the offences are not committed against a woman or a child below 14 years. The now renowned “Tablighi Jamaat” was charged for attending the Markaz at Nizamuddin in Delhi, by allegedly indulging in missionary activities illegally, violating the visa conditions and the government guidelines issued by the Government of India due to the Coronavirus pandemic outbreak in the country.
