Three foreign Tablighi Jamaat women found 3-month pregnant while staying at quarantine centre despite strict security

In a bizarre incident from Jharkhand, three foreign women associated with the Tablighi Jamaat, who had stayed at a quarantine centre and jail in Ranchi, were reportedly found to be three months pregnant.

All these women were reportedly part of 17-people foreigner group arrested in Ranchi on the charges of violation of lockdown guidelines and visa rules. They were later shifted to a quarantine centre in Ranchi’s Khel Gaon and were later transferred to the Birsa Munda jail in May.

However, the 17 apprehended persons were granted bail by the Jharkhand High Court earlier last week on a condition that they cannot leave the country and will have to stay here and appear before the court as and when required until the disposal of the case.

The report further stated that all these foreigners were detained on March 30 this year. They were then isolated at a quarantine centre in Khelgaon. Later, the court remanded them to judicial custody on April 18 after a case was filed against them on the charges of violation of lockdown guidelines and visa rules.

The not more than 3-month pregnant Tablighi Jamaat women have been in quarantine for almost 111 days:

According to the Nai Dunia report, from March 30 to July 20, these women along with others had been housed in the quarantine centre and thereafter shifted to the prison, once the quarantine period was over. The women were first kept at the quarantine Center in Khelgaon. One of them, who had tested positive for corona had undergone treatment at RIMS before being shifted to the quarantine Center in Khelgaon.

All these 17 people, nine males and four couples travelled to Ranchi in March end after attending the Tablighi Jamaat event in New Delhi. One of the women, hailing from Malaysia, was the first to be diagnosed with the coronavirus.

Now the authorities are perplexed that despite living in strict security checks at the quarantine centre and in jail for nearly four months, where officials keep a strict vigil and ensure the inmates do not come close and meet each other, how the women got pregnant.