Clean chit to Tablighi Jamaat, too little, too late?
Part-one of this two-part series traces how courts have ruled against hate. But with the incessant vilification, perhaps the damage has already been done.
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While the rule of law has certainly triumphed, and Tablighi Jamaat members head home after being subjected to daily media trial for days at end, the courts are finding out that these Jamaat members were incarcerated without enough evidence in most cases.
The narrative around the Tablighi Jamaat is turning turtle as Indian courts exonerate this conservative Muslim sect of conspiracy spread around the Coronavirus. Eight months after 11 state governments also filed 205 FIRs against 2,765 foreign nationals for allegedly violating visa terms and intentionally disregarding Covid-19 guidelines, not one member of the Tablighi Jamaat, a back-to-roots Islamic movement, has been convicted by any court.